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Does Framework sell a laptop with Linux pre-installed or do they only have officially supported distros?
Ships with windows or blank disk (selectable). Ubuntu/mint/fedora are officially supported but you could install other distros like arch
Still not shipping with something.
I'd only wipe it anyway.
Me too, and have done it in the past on one laptop that I did get with Linux when there was no bring-your-own option, but I suppose that OP's got a point --- there are people out there for whom installing the OS on a blank laptop is going to be intimidating.
If you've installed an OS a zillion times, this is all old hat. If you never have before, probably feels kind of scary.
For those people, having a preinstalled OS can be a significant value-add.
You can buy no OS. Or even no included drive. You'll save on having to pay the Windows license.