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Re:Before you Dual Boot – MS, OEMs and Linux by joyofdata on Sunday March 16, 2014 @01:50PM (#7410394)
For me precisely this was the final reason I needed to simply erase Windows 8 64bit Professional (which I paid for half a year earlier) and install Ubuntu 13.10.

I was worried about driver issues and spending too much time adminstering my system instead of using it for being productive. I cannot emphasize enough how unnecessary those worries were - I f love it! As an IT guy using R, Git, Python and further Linux tools this made actually a lot of tasks way easier!

My recommendation - f* dual boot - get rid of Windows and switch to Linux!

Re:Before you Dual Boot – MS, OEMs and Linux by dopkew on Sunday March 16, 2014 @02:26PM (#7410541)
If you mention what your system is, then it could help others in making buying decisions. This would then send a message to hardware vendors that linux support gives them visibility and appreciation.
Re:Before you Dual Boot – MS, OEMs and Linux by zanny on Sunday March 16, 2014 @04:50PM (#7411210)
https://www.system76.com/

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/

https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

And others. Really, if you are buying a new system for Linux, and it isn't a custom desktop, just buy a notebook from a Linux provider so you know modern kernels support the thing out of the box flawlessly.