> Its for people like me who want a linux laptop, but don't want to go through the hassle of installing it. For me, buying from an upstream-oriented Linux hard

> Its for people like me who want a linux laptop, but don't want to go through the hassle of installing it. For me, buying from an upstream-oriented Linux hardware vendor is about getting an assurance that on any distro newer than the hardware, everything will just work. I always plan to perform an installation because I have distro preferences. With System76, a stable, fast, open-source BIOS is also part of the value proposition. Personally, I'd never get an NVIDIA laptop again, 'supported' or not. At the end of the day, NVIDIA's kernel module will constrain what kernel versions you can use regardless of what any downstream vendor does. That means possible version conflicts with other out-of-tree kernel modules that I actually want, like ZoL.