Instead of Ubuntu, could consumer linux laptops be preloaded with Linux Mint instead?

With linux laptops generally Ubuntu is the distro that is preinstalled, but I don't think it's really the best choice. Generally anyone sufficiently proficient with linux knows how to install their preferred distro, which means the preinstalled distro is largely used by people without in-depth familiarity with linux. The problem with pre-installing Ubuntu is that it's not exactly easy to learn and adapt to, with it's user interface GNOME being somewhat hostile to new users. (https://felipec.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/one-decade-later-gnome-still-sucks/) With linux there's two different parts, the graphical layer and the subsystem. This is equivalent to very old versions of Windows where Windows was actually an application running on top of DOS. For Ubuntu, "ubuntu" is actually the name of the subsystem, with GNOME being the part that is displayed on the monitor and that the user interacts with using a mouse, touchpad, or touchscreen. There are actually a few different graphical layers such as KDE's Plasma and Cinnamon that vastly changes how the computer looks and is interacted with.

Which brings us to Linux Mint. Linux Mint uses the ubuntu subsystem, but uses the Cinnamon desktop enviroment. Cinnamon is designed to be similar to Windows 7 in a way that Windows users will find familiar, and Linux Mint (https://www.linuxmint.com/) is designed to be as user friendly as possible, to the point that it is consistently recommended as the first choice for people wishing to try Linux - and most users who try Linux Mint are happy with it and choose to stay with it. They offer an extensive community of users willing to help each other out and make tutorials for different tasks, and it even has a community help chat hotline built into the welcome app.

I would suggest that Dell consider offering a laptop that has Linux Mint preinstalled instead of Ubuntu. If they do so they may find it to be a well selling model with a lower return rate then Ubuntu laptops, and able to justify sellign more models