Hmmm. What I, in particular, would pay for, is for Dell to have a repository of reliable & tested drivers that they maintain for that particular hardware setup

Hmmm. What I, in particular, would pay for, is for Dell to have a repository of reliable & tested drivers that they maintain for that particular hardware setup. That way I could simply install a (relatively) standard distro (gentoo, debian, red hat, arch, etc), and have a very high confidence that the drivers worked seamlessly.