It's a catch 22.

The way to make Linux easy to use is basically just to pre-install it and ensure the hardware is compatible.

System 76 does this, and charges 3x as much as other OEMs.

At this point if I'm a consumer ohh Linux is 3x the price.

If you install Linux on a refurbished Thinkpad, most of the time you can get something very nice for 500$ or less.

I often dream, if I had money, of buying and refurbishing hundreds of laptops per year. Installing Linux and giving them out.

Would be better than cities handing out Chromebooks.

If I buy a laptop from Lenovo today, buying it without an OS or with Linux is cheaper than Windows.