GiantEvilPig

They need internet to run. If you are only using for say chrome, they are great. You can also pick one up for only a few hundred USD. But they suck at anything else. But with your budget, don't even consider one. You should go with a Lenovo Yoga 730. Is a super great laptop, in fact it is my main driver. What ever model you get has an m.2 ssd (super fast storage) and 2 thunder bolt 3 ports. They are like USB C on steroids. Is also got pen support, which I take advantage of. The 1080p touch screen is a little saturated, but can easily be tuned down. If you have any questions about it, just ask! Here is a link: https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Yoga-720-Touch-i5-8250U/dp/B076V6DPZN/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1545405518&sr=1-8&keywords=Lenovo+yoga+730

Just tell me when to send it ?

I mean Smartphone Notches and not Notch the creator of Minecraft, he's a cool dude.
 

"Just Buy It"

Because your reality sucks.
 
(pls don't hate me)

We need our differences, but why do we have to constantly shove them down each other's throats?

My controversial opinion, not just on tech but just about everything: why can't we all just get along peacefully?

WHERE ARE THE LEAKED PICTURES I NEED THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, a recent one I enjoyed: People who haven't played Spider Man (PS4) are mad the developers took away a puddle.

Mario is somehow a hero.

Why does it even has to exist. Amen to that.

I have a lot of them. Here are a few;
Removal of the headphone jack from current generation flagship phones  The Galaxy Note7  The Snapdragon 810 Antennagate  Windows 10

I don't know if it counts as a controversy, but mine are when people make assertions that I bother to do some research into their origins or truth, only to find out said assertion is basically false, was based on some rando from the internet's opinion, not doing any historical research, or is founded on a general lack of understanding of the way things work. Examples:
Intel using thermal grease as the TIM instead of solder GeForce 10 doesn't support asynchronous compute Most things regarding multi-threading and multi-core programming Windows Vista in general Most security issues that get widely known to the general public AMD Mantle not seemingly being the magic bullet people were expecting it to be. Which extends to DX12 and Vulkan. Intel's "incremental" improvements  My problem with this is nobody seemed to take into account the decision NVIDIA had to make: It was either release the card with 3GB and even less bandwidth or what they did.
 
Most people don't pay for Windows anyway. It comes with the PC they bought. And the cost of Windows doesn't affect the cost of the PC since Microsoft subsidizes it.

Keep in mind that enthusiasts on tech forums are not the majority. Anyone that doesn't already have an interest in linux isn't just going to switch over because it's free. to them it's an unknown OS that they haven't heard of before and have no familiarity with how it works, might as well be created by the chinese government for all they care. So most people are going to stay on windows because it's what they know and they trust Microsoft (regardless of your own personal opinions on the matter).
 
Even if every game and every program i use was available on Linux (and i mean native, not WINE or Proton), i would still likely be on Windows because it's had a much longer period of optimization and driver support and it's what i know. If something goes wrong i'll likely have a good idea how to fix it. if something goes wrong on Linux the general solution is "go to terminal and type in the below elvish, it will fix it, i'm not going to tell you what else it does, just trust me" 

It'll die for me. The point being there is active development from a large company rather than at home methods. Why pay $100 for windows when you could get the same thing for free? You never have to touch the command line if you don't want to anymore. The things that would keep most are the MS products and Adobe

Some people that think Linux is a good desktop OS for most people.

you can game*
 
* in a selection of games and only through steam.
 
 
my favourite controversy
That people think windows is going to die if linux takes off...
 
 

People spending hundreds of dollars on in game items like CSGO and Fortnite Skins

Well now with Proton you can game so windows can die now

Rebuttal (opinion): Intel purposely gimped their CPUs for years to allow AMD to catch up otherwise they would have a monopoly and pushed AMD out of the market meaning ryzen wouldn't exist

my favourite one is that how the big tech giants laughing at us when they see we argue (mac vs pc, console vs pc),  and the more we argue, the more they sell their products... 
 

"Xeons can't game"
Oh boy, i can disprove that one soooo easily! 
 
Also Peltier cooling, i personally never bought into it, but some people seem to love it.

I love the GTX 970 3.5GB thing, people from both sides were so wildly mad in the wrong way.
Nvidia fanboys saying it's literally no issue and AMD fans saying it kills the entire card and Nvidia's believability.
Of the course truth it somewhere inbetween..

without a doubt the shady business practices of Intel that brought us the last decade of "we cant do more than quad cores for consumers"
And also the fact that most people dont know about this and think Intel has earned its position on the market.

Mine is "consoles are superior to PC's." Whats your favorite controversy?