If you buy new hardware it usually requires more work to get working than hardware that is say 2 years old and is already fully supported. Bear in mind that even with Ubuntu you will usually need to use a non long term release if you have new hardware which means you will need to update to a new version every few months so it's much more hassle than simply buying a 2 year old computer. And the newer computer will probably only be marginally faster for most tasks anyway, but the headache of setting it up isn't worth it.

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