Is it the best free option? It works fairly well although I can still kill it sometimes.

I know there’s a few other alternatives like OnlyOffice, wps office etc but these might be freemium.

Good point.

Mint wouldn’t run on my other Asus laptop which is why I ended up on Debian. I think it was a discrete GPU issue booting to a black screen.

I know most Linux users probably wouldn’t want Chrome anyway, but since it’s the most popular browser and this post is discussing the greater populace, I think it was a valid point - same as how a n00b booting to a black screen is an issue.

Having to fetch gnome tweaks to get a right click on a trackpad is another - that might just be a Debian thing.

Agreed. Just put Debian on a 17" i7 Asus laptop tonight as win11 didn’t like the track pad or the display adapter.

To get Chrome on, had to download a deb file, then manually open it with a right click and choose software installer since it wanted to open an archive instead.

Just little things like that are tedious for the n00b.

Run everything through a VPN tunnel instead?