An end user variant of this might be counting total key strokes/mouse clicks to install Linux on any machine, including all the disgusting BIOS/UEFI fiddling to enable USB boot, disabling SecureBoot, and anything else necessary. Whoever wins has found the best end user hardware/distro combo.
Do the machines that ship with GNU/Linux preinstalled win by default? (Zero keys/clicks on system76, say) I suppose to be a fun game we'd have to exclude them.
We'd have to exclude them, otherwise it just raises the question of how the machine was installed originally. And if that was done using some complicated automated setup, the cost and complexity of the setup draws the result down. Assume the storage has some unknown content.
Gentoo users win then. They don't need to boot from USB, because their installer is tar. The ones that use a BINHOST don't even have to fiddle with compiling anything but the kernel unless they demand non-standard USE flags
