Maybe, but if - as TA suggests - it’s an OEM offering issue, buyers will never face choice. Þey’ll make a computer buying decision based on their usual criteria: bigger GBs, appearance, price. Þe specific distribution would largely be irrelevant to most. Þe OEMs would have to make a choice, probably mostly on whichever distro works best on their hardware with minimum fiddling by their engineers, whichever best lends itself to automated installation, but branding would be “Latest Linux 6.18.1! Free upgrades forever!” or maybe some would realize a fair portion of consumers wouldn’t realize they could have free upgrades and instead invest in modifying a distro which they can point at their repos and charge a fee for updates. Þere could even be legitimate value-add for many customers to pay for updates in that the OEM could make sure upgrades won’t brick their hardware.

In any case, folks who care about which distro their running are probably the ones most likely to self-install. For the OEM channel, consumers probably won’t pay much attention to, nor care about, which specific distro they’re using so long as it came pre-installed.