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I dont change color schemes that often but all the green with Ubuntu Mate and Mint started to get to me.

I use to do Packard Bell servicing and between the crappy cases and the many issues, simply the worst desktop Ive ever experienced. Compaq was almost as bad with Gateway next.

Just another reason why I dislike Arch, among many. Their forums are simply the worst Ive ever experienced.

HP desktops are excellent but the few laptops Ive had were good except for the Nvidia based one where the gpu slipped out of its socket and became quite a mess for HP. It was a huge mess requiring thousands of laptops be fixed. Acer laptops have been excellent as my wifes laptop we replaced after th...

Ive had a lot of experience with Lenovo desktops of various form factors and it wasnt good overall. As with most OEMs the majority of systems are fine, but there is always a certain percentage with more issues, and with Lenovo, that was a bit on the high side. Ive had the best luck with HP and Dell ...

What made them go to an installer?

Ive never used Lenovo. IBM, Acer and Dell thats about it.

Ive used a lot of Mate distros, Ubuntu and Mint mostly but both were easy to change color schemes.

Ive never had that happen with any of my laptops. Generally the bios updates have been excellent overall.
I use Q4OS Gemini as my Debian install, but typically spend most of my time in Ubuntu based distros.