Additionally, the netbooks wave proved the point that even when there are computers at the store with GNU/Linux pre-installed, it isn't a pure version of a well known distro, rather a customized OEM variant, as they have been doing since the early days of UNIX, CP/M, MS-DOS, because "differentiation and added value".

It is hardly any different from getting that IoT board, that only works with the snowflake distro that was made available on the release date, and nothing else.