In what country is removing internal PC components not hard for average
folks? All the "average folks" I see every day don't know how to (or want to)
open a computer up, let alone know what an nVidia card is.
At my job I deal with these kind of people every day. If there was an
integrated GPU in the first place, there would not be a video card. Hence,
removing a card /is/ putting money into the computer, as it would need to be
substituted with /something/. If the user installs their own card, this is
not the user I am worried about.
Also I'd not assume the components are removable in the first place. The
majority of new PCs and the majority of those I'll be working with are
laptops, not desktops. If you can come up with an example for a laptop it
would be more relevant.
"You would only want to check first whether 'lspci' indicates that there is a
"VGA compatible controller" inside the Intel processor. You probably run this
command anyway to discover the nVidia card." Explain that to my grandma.
"having to boot an [sic] most outdated kernel" - are you implying that
linux-libre, a derivative of linux, is somehow more updated than the software
it was derived from? Or that the "evil blob[s]" make it somehow out-of-date?
And how would it be troublesome? Selecting a different option at startup is
simple for a non-techie. Ubuntu runs it, and is more OOB compatible because
of it - and you'd be fooling yourself if you thought Joe Shmoe would somehow
feel the difference this blob's presence makes when using his computer.
When it's gone, though - boy, will he notice.
