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I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "endgame" in this kind of bare context. If you are asserting that this is a cool setup then I agree.

Coincidentally, I was just on their site this morning looking at their wood paneled workstations.

I'm personally not sure about pop!_os though. I would have like them to offer a mint option as part of the standard builds.

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I just got one of their Thelio workstations in March, been really happy with it so far. Pop!_OS is neat, but I installed Fedora KDE within a week and it was seamless. That the choice for "default installed OS" didn't include my preferred flavor didn't really bother me so much.

They offer both Ubuntu and pop! os; I don't think it's fair to ask for more distros. If you want Mint, just install Mint. An install of Ubuntu 20.04 for me required zero configuration on a new Oryx Pro 16" that I bought a few months ago.

I'm well aware they offer both Ubuntu and Pop. After all, I was just there looking to purchase a workstation. Ubuntu might be your cup of tea but I personally don't care for Snap. I know absolutely nothing about Pop!_OS. Neither of these options are ones I would choose.

It would have been nice (imho) if they offered Mint as an option as it would potentially save me the pain of hunting down the proper drivers and hoping I can figure out how to install them and get the workstation I want to actually work.

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