funkajunk

1. The actual time needed to wipe out Windows and install is under 30 minutes.
2. See above.
3. Prebuilt machines use OEM keys, which are $10-$20 at best - whoever you buy the system from is definitely getting a volume discount. In my opinion, a small sacrifice to be free of M$.

Drink your brown go-water, slave. You need to output at least 10% more than the last quarter, every quarter.

Too many sweats

Pretty much all modern Linux installers offer to wipe the existing drive and overwrite. Just prepare a USB drive and boot from it, then follow the steps in the wizard.

Create bootable media - Linux Mint

It's makeup

Sounds like you don't actually like the taste of Brussels sprouts - you like bacon grease, butter, and oil.

Not long for this world? Care to elaborate?

It was right there, c'mon.

Barbarians?

Heh, suckers

I just said what works best for me. Use the command line and compose files if you want.

Yep, Debian and then add Portainer - for me this is the easiest setup to manage.