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I’m sure it wouldn’t be profitable for them, but I feel like having some vendor sell a ‘reference machine’ that they know could run the core OS well would be a good in between. Someone like Framework selling a workstation looking desktop in a specific reference config couldn’t be too bad. Feels like just enough to get a community started. Most tasks really don’t need bleeding edge hardware anymore, the thing could go years without hardware changes.
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A podcast host / journalist / dev who I've long appreciated occasionally waxes on the value of having a vanity project such as this. The model he compares it to is automakers building concept cars.

Agree 100% with this. Really want to test it out.



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