Lol, "new"... Iirc, KDE almost self-destroyed by chasing the dream of making tablets; Nokia took half a decade to build a working linux-based OS (and then binned it); same for Intel...

Consumer hardware is hard to pull off, to start with. Then there are tons of components requiring closed-source drivers that don't play well with Linux; you can spend a lot of money to rewrite them, or you can build piles of weak hacks that will crash your OS every few hours. You need deep pockets to get OEMs to pay attention to your needs, rather than the needs of giant manufacturers hungry for their production lines. Managing prices on small runs is extremely hard, so your 1.0 is going to be prohibitively expensive, which means it won't sell, which means you won't have the money to fix all the problems

I think the Framework laptop is pretty much as close to a "Linux" laptop as we're gonna get, at least for the foreseeable future. Shipping computers without Windows licences by default and supporting hackers with plenty of documentation on repairing the hardware and making custom modules seem to be pretty in line with the open source mentality.

System76? Framework (officially supports Ubuntu or Fedora)?

Something like 90% of webservers are running Linux. Alma, RedHat, etc are primarily focused on enterprise servers, not consumer devices.

But since you are looking for consumer devices running Linux, I recommend you check out Android, which is running on nearly 3/4 of mobile devices globally.

Cool idea, sure, but I don’t really see how it’s related to AlmaLinux or this particular article…?

This is unrelated, as Almalinux is largely a server distro. But Linux has System76, Tuxedo and Slimbook, also Dell and Framework, though they aren't Linux first.

Dell and myriad other companies sell Linux laptops

> Linux has ???

Famously, the Raspberry Pi.

Android? :D