OK, we're not quite communicating here. System 76 systems come with Ubuntu 20.4 pre-installed. You want another distro, you pop in a usb stick and go for it, or launch over ethernet. Asking for optical drives is a losing proposition these days, afaik. They're very yesterday. I should be able to give yhou direct experience in a few weeks. I ordered my fully loaded MeerKat earlier this week. Delivery is around 3 weeks. Best, Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list