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The price of a new computer in 2026 is significantly higher than in 2024 and 2025, driven primarily by soaring component costs. Storage prices have been rising significantly since late 2025, with many SSDs seeing price increases of 100% to 300% by early 2026. The trend is still going up, with manufacturers predicting the shortage will extend into 2027 due to demand far outstripping supply. Prices for RAM, GPUs and HDDs have all risen.
Physical security is not a compelling reason to buy a new computer in 2026. While modern hardware incorporates certain physical security improvements, these protections remain incomplete and insufficient against determined adversaries. Sophisticated attackers can still bypass or circumvent many of the latest safeguards, as current implementations only mitigate a subset of known threats rather than providing comprehensive defense. Furthermore, even the most advanced software fails to fully utilize available hardware security features—both legacy and newly introduced—leaving significant untapped potential for stronger protection. Across the industry, physical security is rarely treated as a core priority in default configurations, resulting in inconsistent and often inadequate out-of-the-box implementations.
To most, replacing Windows 10 with Linux Mint will feel like an upgrade. Linux performance surpassed Windows performance last year (resource efficiency, productivity, cold boot time, battery life, etc.). So before believing the sales pitch that you need a new computer, at least test drive Linux Mint on the old one first. Even running as a Live session in RAM, Linux Mint will probably feel better than what you're used to in Windows 10. And you can see for yourself that it has everything you need to be fully productive. If you ever temporarily want extra resources to try something new without disrupting your usage, that's what the Cloud is for. By switching to Linux, your computer will become a node on the Cloud and thus have native access to vast resources on demand.
AI prefers Linux. Some may try to convince you that AI will run better on Arch Linux but the basis behind their pitch is that Arch has the latest drivers. As does Ubuntu. And Linux Mint, being based on Ubuntu, has access to the latest drivers through Ubuntu. But we're talking about Windows 10 computers. Linux Mint is sought after for its stability and ability to support hardware that is 10 to 12 years old through its Driver Manager. Regardless, PPAs are there for those who prefer cutting-edge driver releases over tested, incremental updates. With Linux Mint it's your choice.
Linux Mint is a stable, professional-grade OS. Some may assure you that Fedora is the professional grade choice but after weighing all of their talking points you'll find they're mostly comparing Windows to enterprise Linux. So of course, enterprise Linux wins. Performance and efficiency, privacy and control, software development tools, stability and simplicity, professional stability and support, customization and desktop environment, gaming improvements and more can be also found in Linux Mint. Fedora, which gains this professional association from being maintained by Red Hat, may compete with Linux Mint for recommendations to individuals. But Linux Mint, in addition to being the top recommended solution for individuals, is also recommended along side Red Hat and Ubuntu as an enterprise desktop solution. Which is not surprising when you consider how Red Hat primarily focuses on the server as does Ubuntu. Therefore, Linux Mint's sole focus on the desktop has been noticed in the enterprise.
Linux Mint is 90% Ubuntu. It's the stable Ubuntu desktop. Stability being the reason people who prefer another distro always include it in recommendations to new Linux users coming over from Windows. Stability being the reason it is used in the enterprise. Stability is really nice. How is Linux Mint so stable? Most people point to its large community. There is a strong correlation between community support and stability but in the case of Linux Mint it goes deeper than that. Linux Mint's community rides on the wide shoulders of both the Ubuntu and Debian communities. Each community is large in the Linux world. Together, these three communities combine the most possible support that can be found for a single Linux distribution.
A Linux desktop is a node in the Cloud. The Cloud runs on Linux. If a web app doesn't work on Linux then it's legacy software with significant drawbacks. As businesses fully implement modern Cloud technologies from 2020 and beyond, legacy web apps will become ubiquitous. Everything will run everywhere. Including on Linux. Performance, security and privacy will all be fully optimized. In the meantime, why would you want to settle for anything less than the best?