Yes and they are great. But you have to already know they exist and seek them out.

Until these vendors break into EDU it’s an uphill battle.

In WA, every school has Microsoft smart boards and laptops running windows. Kids grow up using it and when they buy their own computers they aren’t going to choose a small boutique builder running an unfamiliar OS they won’t know how to use right away.

Apple has a lock on a lot of EDU as well, and the iPhone is so ubiquitous it’s an easy sell to get folk using other products

Those systems look beautiful but it’s a minority of people that will make a large purchase on something like this.

You think kids have brand loyalty to the vendors that scam/muscle/bribe their way into the classroom?

Most of the EDU software is trash, the incentives are all aligned to spend billions on acquiring the contract and close to zero on execution and most of these kids are traumatized from sitting in a classroom with some clueless dope at the front yelling at them to IPad IPad IPad algebra

It would be a surprise if Microsoft didn't have WA locked.

I don't know what they're like these days but before they were essentially white-label Clevo hardware with PopOS or Ubuntu, etc.

Why does it matter? They provide the support for GNU/Linux and work fine. Also Purism laptops aren't Clevo and never were.

Don't forget Tuxedo.

Lenovo currently offers Linux (Ubuntu) as an option Thinkpads. Dell used to once upon a time; I don't know if they still do.

Dell still does.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/scr/laptops/app...