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> instead of buying it from Lenovo and installing my own distro? I would buy from him over Lenovo precisely to avoid having to install my own distro. I want a laptop that just works, not a new project.
Picking a linux/bsd distro is such a personal decision, though. Unless this service let's me pick from about 20 different distros (and it might), I'm probably going to wind up installing what I want anyways.
We'll offer some choice of distros, and also a no-OS option.