A typo because I was on my phone.
RHEL
Redhat Enterprise Linux. I was a field engineer for the Hat for a couple of years. Basically a linux engineer for hire to help with whatever a client needed on-site.
They have their place. Schools hand out Chromebooks like candy to kids whose parents paid the insurance and they know it. Businesses who are paying for support contracts and treat the hardware as a commodity and a line item on the taxes. They're fine in the hands of people who literally don't...
Pick any Prebuilt. They're all overpriced trash No matter what time period you're talking about. From Gateway, to eMachines, to today's HP's and Alienwares. I've yet to meet a prebuilt I would pay money for.
How are you defining worst? I've used a lot of things over time that are trash compared to even a smartwatch today but were pretty high end at the time.