Since 2007 · Proudly USA · A KIRE company

We install your distro. We don’t build the laptop.

Skip the firmware weekend. We test every radio and ship it ready to open. If a radio fails, it does not leave. An engineer answers the phone.

Configure a laptop How we do it

You pick the OS Ubuntu LTS if you don’t name one. Current ISO, not a buggy spin we invented.

5,000+ Linux laptops shipped since 2007. Still a human on the phone.

OEM warranty When a hinge fails, you call Dell or Lenovo — like everyone else.

25+ distros Ubuntu LTS by default. Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS, Debian, Arch if you want.

3–5 days Installed, tested, UPS Ground. Tracking emailed before it leaves.

Start here

Pick a chassis. Pick a distro. We make them agree.

Dell Lenovo HP Asus Acer

Engineer’s pick

Dell · 15 inch

The setup

You pick the hardware. We do the unglamorous part.

Choose a brand-name laptop

New Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, or Asus — the chassis a repair shop already knows, and hardware that’s not soldered together overseas. Name-brand parts. A local shop can open it. When something fails, you call the manufacturer like everyone else, not a warehouse on another continent.

Pick your distro and desktop

Ubuntu LTS and GNOME if you want our recommendation. Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS, Debian, Arch, and 25+ others if you don’t.

We install, configure, and test

Drivers, codecs, office suite, and every radio. Your Linux engineer is a phone call away.

It just works

Ships ready. Wi-Fi included. Lifetime support for the life of the machine.

Your OS, not ours

Any serious distro. The originals first.

We don’t ship a locked-down image. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Arch. If you already live on Fedora, Bazzite, or CachyOS, pick it on the product page. We put it on the machine and make the hardware behave.

Slackware Debian openSUSE Arch Gentoo Fedora NixOS Ubuntu LTS Linux Mint Zorin Elementary Manjaro Kali KDE neon Pop!_OS EndeavourOS CachyOS Bazzite + 20 more

Six communities, on the product page

Ubuntu. Fedora. Mint. Kali. CachyOS. Bazzite.

Pick any of them when you configure the laptop. Same radio testing, same manufacturer warranty, same engineer on the phone.

Ubuntu

The default. GNOME. Open the lid and get to work.

Ubuntu LTS is what we recommend if you do not have a favorite. App store, Firefox, LibreOffice. We install it, test every radio, and you keep the OEM warranty.

Fedora

Workstation. Current GNOME. The one developers actually run.

Six-month releases, current kernel, Flatpak. We put Fedora on a Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, or Asus and make the firmware and radios behave. You keep the OEM warranty.

Linux Mint

Cinnamon. It can look like a computer.

The kind default if you are leaving Windows: a start-menu desktop, familiar windows, codecs that play. Same radio testing, same manufacturer warranty.

Kali

Security work. Installed and tested before it ships.

Current Kali on a Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, or Asus. Wi-Fi and the rest of the hardware already behaving. You keep the OEM warranty.

CachyOS

Arch, rebuilt for speed. Not a white box.

Their kernel, their repos, on current Intel and AMD chassis. We install it, make the firmware and Wi-Fi behave, and ship it ready. Same 3–5 day UPS Ground, tracking emailed before it leaves.

Bazzite

Steam & Proton, installed. Just pick a GPU and play.

The Fedora Atomic gaming desktop. We install the desktop image, test the GPU and every radio, and you keep the OEM warranty. Not a handheld image unless you ask.

Why us

For this community.

The originals, and the rest

We are not married to one image. Ubuntu LTS is the default. Debian, Fedora, Bazzite, CachyOS, Kali — if we can make the radios behave, it ships.

A warranty that exists in the world

Name-brand chassis. Manufacturer hardware warranty. When a hinge fails in year two, you are talking to Lenovo or Dell — the same people the rest of the country calls.

An engineer, not a ticket

KIRE since 1998. This company since 2007. You get a Linux engineer’s number. The machine leaves in 3–5 days, not “when the build queue clears.”

Leaving Windows 10?

You do not have to take Windows 11 with you.

Support ended. ESU is a delay. Linux on a name-brand laptop is the third door — and you do not need to know the word “distro” first.

Privacy-first

A laptop that does not watch you.

Local login. No Copilot. No Recall. Name-brand hardware, manufacturer warranty, radios already tested.

Talk to us

Skip the weekend of firmware.

Tell us the chassis and the distro. We install it, test every radio, and ship it ready to open — manufacturer warranty still on the machine.

Configure a laptop How we do Linux laptops