My mum, who is in her 60’s, and never used anything other than Windows is on Linux Mint for nearly two years now and has no problem using it. I was surprised she has even explored features like virtual desktops and is using them now. She is far far away from being a tech person. And she never needed to touched a terminal while using it.

But I needed to install Mint for her. I think she would have given up at the point where the boot order had to be changed to start from the USB with the live/install media. And this is the biggest downside of Linux: You can’t just buy the average consumer pc/notebook with a pre-installed Linux. It is always windows installed. That’s why people keep using Windows. Not because Windows is better.

The most famous one is probably PayPal. But I assume for people who are privacy focused, that would be not the first choice.

There is Curve Pay, but I know nothing about it besides the fact that it exists.

Samsung Pay exists, but it only works on Samsung devices and therefore is not really an alternative in this case.

And then there are some regional options. Here in Germany are same banks that offer their own payment apps, most famously the Sparkassen. I heard there are also some Indian and east Asian payment apps, but I don’t know much about them.

Contactless payments does not need to be Google Pay. There are alternatives.

This is the way.

I bought the left one with 1 TB for 64€ in the beginning of December. This is around 75US$.

Even if the 2 TB would double the price, these prices from the ad are just crazy.