This means more investment into technologies that lock down a general computer and give continuous surveillance and control to the maker. Likely those restrict

This means more investment into technologies that lock down a general computer and give continuous surveillance and control to the maker. Likely those restrictions will creep out of this low-cost niche to the rest of PC ecosystem. Installing Linux on a laptop with secure boot was a bad experience, and I dread to imagine how much worse it can be made. For me a PC is only useable with Linux. But it is impossible to get rid of Microsoft influence - they dictate what PC hardware gets to the market.