In my totally-unscientific-and-anecdotally-based theory: 1) The US is where all the sexiest, high-end laptops are made. 2) The newest hardware often has flaky

In my totally-unscientific-and-anecdotally-based theory: 1) The US is where all the sexiest, high-end laptops are made. 2) The newest hardware often has flaky support at first, basically until the people who are using it (Red Hat engineers, etc.) submit patches to get hardware support into the kernel. 3) Getting those laptops working thus requires using a bleeding edge kernel, which is most easily achieved by using Fedora. Again, just my personal experience. It happened to me twice (first with the original Chromebook Pixel and then with the Dell XPS 13 9343) where I used Fedora because only Fedora with the latest kernel properly supported the hardware. Now my XPS 13 is several generations old and well-supported by all the major distros, but I stuck with Fedora because I really enjoyed the distro.