While a machine coming preloaded with Linux is nice and at least means not having to fight Microsoft's latest attempts to dig their claws in and make nuking the copy of Windows I didn't want and installing Linux harder and means a better than average chance the hardware is fully compatible with Linux and won't require proprietary drivers, personally, the more important issue is whether a machine is configured for optical and/or USB boot out of the box so I can just install whichever distro I want and configure it from scratch without the hassle of tracking down a monitor, a willing sighted assistent, and walking them through the process of fixing the boot order(because as hard as finding a sighted assistant is, finding one who actually knows their way around a BIOS is even harder). So anyone know if System76 or any other pro-linux PC makers ship systems I can just pop an installation CD/DVD into and run an installer on first boot? Or have all of them followed the mainstream into the insanity of disabling all boottable devices that aren't the primary harddrive or placing them so low in the boot order they'll only boot if the system drive is borked? _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list