Not at all, last holiday season Best Buy was selling brand new in-warranty M2 MacBook Air systems for $699.

Apple has close to 20% of new PC marketshare globally which is too much to represent only the high end of the market.

Lenovo and Dell are not some fly by night unknown PC manufacturers.

You can buy Dell machines with Ubuntu or RHEL installed on Dell.com, same thing with Lenovo and their site.

Way to miss my second paragraph, people are always touchy to reply when comes to Linux, some things never change since Slashdot glory days.

If you think only HN/Reddit users know the spell to buy computers on Dell.com or Lenovo.com, I don't know what to tell you.

edit: if it doesn't translate well, I'm just fucking with you

There are many reasons Windows has 72% market share, this is one of them.

The cheapest machine with Linux in the Australian Dell store is 13000 AUD (~9000 USD). You can buy many things for that money.

Weird. The cheapest in the UK seems to be this one https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/desktop-computers/dell-pro-m... at £647. It even helpfully tells you that choosing "no Windows" takes £100 off the price.