Back to thinking about this, which means I’m back to running my head in circles. I think for efficiency I might just buy. It still bums me out about the premium that gets charged to not install Windows, and I’m still in the situation of asking why a lot, bit I think I need to get productive first, picky later.
I’ll start by looking at the one offering from System76, and compare does with big boxes to see how that feels.
Peter's stuff.