I would say people don't care too much and take the path of least resistance. If it was an out of the box option they would definitely love a system with good h

I would say people don't care too much and take the path of least resistance. If it was an out of the box option they would definitely love a system with good hardware and a configurable os. When I spent some time and installed Linux on my MacBook Pro 2015 some people came asking for instructions (and were mostly deterred by the compiling needed to build a driver for the webcam). Macbooks are unrivaled for their hardware (pretty much any other laptop sucks), the software is meh and keeps getting worse.