@jrobertson I tend to think the bad websites are more a symptom of the vendors being small time than a cause -- large vendors often have bad websites too, but in a different way. Maybe some volunteer help in exchange they release everything on their sites under CC-BY-SA and provide (nearly always missing) info about what if any proprietary drivers their systems require.

Also, it may turn out that the https://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed isn't super well maintained. I hope I'm not being too annoying in asking about that -- https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2015/05/msg00036.html