&gt; Alternatively, go for System76 or Entroware hardware.  That hardware ships with Linux.<p>In both cases, it ships with <i>Ubuntu</i>, and doesn&#x27;t necessarily support Linux (or BSD) distros in general.<p>I was able to install Debian on my old System76 laptop, but the graphics card and wireless networking have never been completely happy.  Now that I&#x27;m upgrading, I&#x27;m going to get a zareason — I&#x27;ve been very happy with the desktop &amp; laptop I&#x27;ve used from them already.<p>I used to be an Ubuntu user, but it got progressively more difficult to customise my machine to run the way I want it to.  I don&#x27;t want GNOME <i>or</i> Unity: I run stumpwm.  Tiling window managers are the future.