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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by rbanffy on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:50AM (#15712569)
> Yes it is very nice to have 1, 2 or even 5 Laptops which work with linux.

It's been a long time I haven't seen a general purpose laptop or desktop that didn't work flawlessly with both Ubuntu and Fedora. The only one I have is the MacBook Pro in front of me, but it comes with a decent OS anyway.

> Windows still runs on more devices, better.

Can it delete open files now?

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by oblio on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:03AM (#15713119)
> Can it delete open files now?

Does it matter? And how is this related to the rest of the discussion? :)

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by rbanffy on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:38AM (#15713496)
The open-delete-close pattern is common with Unix-like OSs. It makes temporary files invisible and inaccessible to any program that doesn't have them already open at deletion time.
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