There was never any good reason to buy from them unless you just felt like giving them money. All of their products were just whitelabeled machines from other

There was never any good reason to buy from them unless you just felt like giving them money. All of their products were just whitelabeled machines from other vendors, available elsewhere cheaper. They did nothing to differentiate their products and almost exclusively targeted wealthy hobbyists (c.f. products like "Gamerbox"). System76 innovates (even if it's just via an Ubuntu respin) and Purism tries to differentiate themselves at the hardware level. EmperorLinux sources hardware from big-name vendors and focuses on software. I am still waiting for the "linux laptop company" to arrive that actually takes advantage of Linux, instead of shoveling consumer-grade products in one-off sales. Where is the company offering 'managed fleet' for business workstations? So far it's just Google doing it with Chromebooks, but with modern devops tools it should be a pretty easy business model.