Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off

Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by croon on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:08AM (#15711494)

> Once you do, it's rock solid, but it should be OOTB and it annoys me that it isn't.

I was very happy with an Asus Zenbook I bought that had the PURE (+ sometimes a number) suffix on the model name. Those laptops come with a clean windows install + any needed drivers.

It only saves an hour or two for yourself, but I wish more (or really all) manufacturers supplied these models.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by jmkni on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:58AM (#15711994)

A co-worker of mine recently got a Surface Laptop.

Very nice piece of kit, but even that came loaded with ads, and would search Bing and the app store every time you searched the start menu.

It's little things like this that make Windows so much worse. It takes ten minutes in Group Policy to turn it off, but the majority of users will never go near group policy, and will just assume that is just the way Windows works.

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