Ask HN: Would you pay for a beautiful and stable Linux-distro for high-end PCs?

I'm also a little confused by the description, specs, and timetable. We are starting with two years for development where one might expect delivery some time after that, but I consider many of the specs to be minimums and not representative of a "high end pc" today.

While I would certainly not want a "slow UI", your first 3 items seem unimportant as far as I am personally concerned. My main workstations are desktops and I almost never use my laptop when it is not plugged in. Even my laptop has about twice a guts of your spec and it is several years old now. For me battery life is completely irrelevant and I would gladly trade beautiful and pleasing for ubiquitous driver support.

Although, I don't think that's the main problem with a Linux distro. Most of the friction still comes from third party apps, such as Teams (which I use for calls multiple times a week and it absolutely sucks).

Why? This sounds like it's supposed to be inefficient.

> limited drivers support to a small set of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other common devices (based on who's willing to pay)

Also why? The Linux kernel has all the support for free.

That it's open source would be a precondition for me. The closest to what you're proposing is Elementary OS, which I would likely pay for if I was still using it.