So the answer to the 27-step question is Yes. Alas. Still nowhere near as easy as installing Linux on an Intel laptop. Which of course is already way too hard for most folks.

Still, well done for doing it.

U: downvoting facts does not make them go away. This was not a personal attack. I want this solution to to be more viable than it is, that is all.

Did it come installed or did you need to complete a 27-step process involving cables and obscure commands and fiddly key combinations and the risk of bricking the thing?

Who do you talk to on it?