<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why these boutique Linux system vendors all end up gravitating towards rolling their own distributions -- Pop!_OS (ugh) for System76, PureOS (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pureos.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pureos.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) for Purism, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been running Ubuntu on my machines for something like a decade now, and have experience with Debian and Red Hat&amp;#x2F;Fedora from before that. I know what to expect from these distributions. When you tell me you&amp;#x27;ve rolled your own distribution, I have &lt;i&gt;no idea&lt;/i&gt; what to expect, which turns me off from your product. And if the answer is &amp;quot;you can expect exactly the same as what you&amp;#x27;d get from Ubuntu&amp;#x2F;Debian&amp;#x2F;Fedora&amp;#x2F;whatever,&amp;quot; then why bother rolling a new distro in the first place? Why take what should be a simple sales pitch and make it more confusing?&lt;p&gt;They seem to think the idea of learning my way around Yet Another Linux Distribution is an enticement. It isn&amp;#x27;t -- especially when the only community around the distribution is a single small company, which means that anything I do learn is unlikely to be useful beyond using that company&amp;#x27;s products. As soon as I buy from someone else, or that one small company goes out of business or loses interest in maintaining the distro, I can take all that knowledge and toss it in the bin. No thanks.&lt;p&gt;(Weirdly, the only company in this space that seems to really get this is Dell. I feel like I&amp;#x27;m living in the Mirror Universe.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Thelio: A Review</title><url>https://nora.codes/post/system76-thelio-a-review/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>After the busy work of using Linux and making a hobby of configuration (I think I started in 1992 with Slackware), it was so nice buying a System76 laptop last fall and having everything ‘just work.’</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System76 Thelio: A Review</title><url>https://nora.codes/post/system76-thelio-a-review/</url></story>