No, it not so simple. Companies like Dell are required to GUARANTEE their out-of-box usability. How can they possibly do this with the multiple flavors of Linux. Most particularly when the various desktop products offered by Linux providers are most definitely not 'plug and play'. Rather they are geekware, go to the command line to insert arcane instructions. dogs. Linux has already found it's niche - in the small to medium stress server marker. As to the high stress market, note the resurgence of SUN and other Unix providers. Wonder why that is. Back to Dell, I have just received a high-end Dell XPS and it: contains no 'crapware' other than what I specified in my order. And, yes, the OS options are all Microsoft. But for 99% of computer users, what is the viable alternative. Certainly not Linux geekware!