Comment by SoftTalker
3 days ago
Why do you need linux preinstalled on a new computer?
Take a user friendly distro, boot up the installer, accept the defaults on the few questions it asks... done.
It's no more difficult than the first-time configuration MacOS or Windows will walk you through on a new system.
I precisely excluded HN crowd exactly because of comments like this.
First of all that hardly works flawlessly in 2026 laptops, still.
Secondly, this is about regular consumers, not Linux nerds.
Do you make such a fuss when riding a rental or otherwise 'new to you' car, which diverges from the haptics of the one you were used to use?