Thanks for the feedback! Our motivation for this project was to accelerate the growth of PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed on them, particularly at a low price poin

Thanks for the feedback! Our motivation for this project was to accelerate the growth of PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed on them, particularly at a low price point. We looked at the Raspberry Pi, but it provides too little CPU horsepower for most basic computing chores - its hard to run a decent GUI or browse the web on it. Not knocking the Pi one bit here (!), but we think a desktop computer would need a bit more firepower than the Pi. Also, being a crowdfunded project, we're able to provide this at a price-point that System76, ZaReason and other pre-installed Linux providers aren't able to provide right now (they're great companies too, so do support them if you like Linux pre-installed on your desktops/laptops!)