>That might be their target audience.

Seems like a lot of effort and fanfare for such a niche market.

That "niche" market of ageing parents with legacy hardware is much bigger than the nerd hacker market of Arch linux.

	▲	FirmwareBurner 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The difference is there's a lot more HN-like users who will go out to run Arch, than ageing people installing who will go out to install Linux instead of getting a iPad/tablet.