Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS

Re:Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware up... by ddtaylor on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:13AM (#17038517)

Mainly comparing what you can get for a similar price in terms of CPU speed and memory size for half the cost. Their $920 laptop compares to a $500 Dell. In theory this is worth it because you're paying for that awesome Linux integration, but in practice more people buy the Dell laptop so more people are invested in making it work for daily use.

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Re:Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware up... by bachmeier on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:54AM (#17038846)

> In theory this is worth it because you're paying for that awesome Linux integration

Dell's hardware generally works quite well with Linux. Since 2014, I've bought two desktops and two laptops from Dell, and everything has worked out of the box with the Linux distributions I've tried. My employer bought a new desktop computer for me from Dell with Ubuntu installed. There's no need to pay a premium.

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Re:Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware up... by wafflesraccoon on Friday May 11, 2018 @03:17PM (#17050105)

+1 For Dell. Their hardware isn't the best but I've never had a problem running GNU/Linux on my XPS.

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