So what's the point of this?

The sad realuzation is that, in the PC consumer market where price is king, there are no general computers. There are Windows computers and there are Mac computers. There are a subset of each of those that can run a current version of linux perfectly. There is another, much larger subset that can run Linux mostly, at the loss of some functionality. A subset of that subset will, in a future version of Linux, get closer to the first subset, some even achieving the full 100%. There are no consumer Linux PCs simply because the existance of the first subset, coupled with the Good Enough subset of the second subset as well as the subset of the second subset whih I previously mentioned. These lead to 1) an impoverished (compared to where they would be were you required to only buy Linux hardware) Linux consumer market unable to wield sufficient power in the odm market to establish a viable Linux hardware market and 2) the "Linux sucks!" reaction when Windows or Mac users do venture out and try Linux in the subset of the second subset which is the Not Good Enough subset.

(all the Linux OEMs can do is try to ensure the hardware they sell is in the first subset, at prices as close to competitive with volume Windows OEMs as they can get (or else their customers will just buy pc with Windiws pre-installed from someone else). Thus, not buying from a Linux vendor ensures an extremely lengthened, if ever successful, bootstrap phase in th establishment of th linux consumer pc market.)