Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers

Re:Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers by kgwxd on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:57PM (#21445047)

They'd win quite few more if they fought for open drivers and firmware from the big names as well. There's a lot of people trying to make that a thing, but support from Dell could really push things forward.

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Re:Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers by guillermin on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:14PM (#21445258)

Not even just 3rd party chipsets: I bought a first generation linux-based developer XPS13 and a proprietary Dell chip that only served to check that the power supply was an original Dell malfunctioned, so my laptop refused to charge and would limit CPU speed. I was left with a useless slow 13" desktop.

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Re:Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers by wmf on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:49PM (#21445681)

AFAIK the tg3 driver exists because Dell fought Broadcom for it, although that was years ago. Probably even Dell isn't big enough to budge NVidia.

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Re:Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers by kgwxd on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:34PM (#21448401)

But AMD maybe? I think they're big enough that if they started doing it, NVidia might consider doing at least a branch of products that had open drivers.

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Re:Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers by wmf on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:10PM (#21448622)

AMD already has open drivers. I suppose Dell could apply more pressure by shipping laptops with AMD GPUs instead of NVidia.

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