Yes only the US should get access to that

Wrong, I’m running a sandy bridge on cachyos right now

• Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior

Doesn’t Linux have pretty much every driver built into the kernel with the only notable exception being the NVIDIA closed source drivers. Even those drivers are a single command away from installation, it even configures itself correctly out of the box for Wayland support.

Why not? especially when it’s a laptop from 2010