No, but they are a popular mainstream company for those who are less tech savvy. The more of these large companies that do this the more linux gamong will grow, developers will see a need to pay attention to making games work natively on linux. You can hate HP and still see this as a good thing.

Yes fuck HP, one of the worst hardware companies out there, right after Apple.

The last time I considered buying anything from HP was, like, 2001.

Others with lower prices innovated.

Then when HP lowered prices, it was because they loaded up with 3rd party subscription programs pre-installed, went with brittle parts that were expensive to fix, systems were slow from bad drivers, and hid repair info. I think they were the first to DRM their printer cartridges. I think they were the first to start ink subscriptions.

No way I'd own anything from HP.

They do come out with good hardware now and then. Some of their higher end laser printers are reviewed well. At my job we have an HP laser printer that is older than the store that is still chugging along just fine while being used every day.

Their overall quality is so poor though that it is hard to trust anything they put out.

More consumer linux devices are good though.

I find their enterprise laptops to be surprisingly good. I own a refurbished EliteBook and it has really nice keyboard and track pad as well as user-replaceable RAM, SSD and wireless card. My only issue is that most of their enterprise laptops come with screens with 45% support of sRGB, which is trash for web design and photo editing.