<html><head></head><body>I missed mist of the discussion, so pardon me for possible going over plowed ground - it is probably difficult to nigh impossible to buy a linux-installed machine, but it is quite easy to buy a "no os" machine (actually, with freedos). Why not get one of them and deploy whatever flavour of Linux the tickles your fancy?<br><br>And no - I am not going to debate which distro is shiniest.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 May 2020 15:59:39 GMT+03:00, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi,<br><br>Pardon me for straying a bit off the topic of the recent sub-thread,<br><br>On 14/05/2020 23:08, Steve Litt wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, 14 May 2020 14:39:02 -0400<br>Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">That's perfectly reasonable, although I'll personally never use or<br>recommend Mint again. <br></blockquote><br>I'm going to bow out of this debate now. I should have bowed out of it<br>long ago. First of all, I'm presumably on the same side as most of you<br>when it comes to the major important facts, as opposed to the side show<br>I've been discussing. Number two, I have nowhere near as much skin in<br>the game as most of you have.<br></blockquote><br>Be actually constructive and more on-topic and answer the question.<br><br>The last computer I bought with Linux pre-installed was a purism laptop.<br>Rather expensive and cannot be bought in Israel. The OS is a Debian<br>derivative, and it works well out of that specific box. But then again,<br>if you don't limit yourself to Israel, there are a number of others.<br><br>-- Tzafrir<hr>Linux-il mailing list<br>Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il<br><a href="http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il">http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- Sent from /e/ Mail.</body></html>