This was done 19 years ago. It was called Lindows. It came with a fancy GUI and custom packaged applications using a private app repository. Wal-Mart sold PCs p

This was done 19 years ago. It was called Lindows. It came with a fancy GUI and custom packaged applications using a private app repository. Wal-Mart sold PCs pre-installed with it. I bought one. Needless to say, that was not enough for Linux to go mainstream.