I have been only used dell for the past 10 years, and never had any issues.
I currenty have a Dell vostro 1520, which works out of the box with Debian
testing. I run Windows in vmplayer when I have to use it.
Mark
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net> wrote:
> Same with Dell, they employ guys like Mario Limonciello supporting their
> hardware that does a lot of compatibility testing and pushes fixes
> internally with dell for bios and other vendor-supported features. I'd do
> quick compat checks before buy, but Dell is usually a pretty safe option
> for linux support I find.
>
> I'd gone with a HP Elitebook for pure power (and 4 dimm slots for cheap
> 16gb ram) and other than raw performance, it's been an disaster for linux
> support. ACPI and bios disk functions are broken at best, and they will
> never fix them because their "userbase is too small". How about just
> making hardware that doesn't suck? Perfect example of a vendor parasite
> around linux - happy to use it to sell servers, but nothing else.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 03/27/2012 07:01 AM, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Good machines that tend to work if not support Linux is sager notebooks.
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2012 6:35 AM, "kitepilot@kitepilot.com
>> <mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.**com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com>>" <
>> kitepilot@kitepilot.com
>>
>> <mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.**com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> I would stay away from System76.
>> Bad BAD (and costly) experience...
>> ET
>> PS: YMMV...
>>
>>
>> Stephen writes:
>>
>> The other option is a vendor like system76 they have a good bang
>> for buck
>> value. Or maybe red 7.
>> But the instant you add discrete graphics your battery life goes
>> way down.
>> Also the dell latitudes support linux quite well. Just not in an
>> official
>> sense.
>> On Mar 27, 2012 12:46 AM, "Phillip Waclawski"
>> <waclawski@mesacc.edu <mailto:waclawski@mesacc.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> I have one of the Dell Ubuntu Laptops from about 6 years ago
>> (yes, they
>> did sell 1420n inspirons with linux pre-installed :). It
>> still works, but
>> the Intel Graphics card doesn't support Opengl very well, so
>> that makes
>> Blender, openshot and other programs on linux a pain, and
>> things like
>> wacraft literally impossible.
>> So, I've been thinking about
>> http://zareason.com/shop/__**Strata-6770.html<http://zareason.com/shop/__Strata-6770.html>
>>
>> <http://zareason.com/shop/**Strata-6770.html<http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-6770.html>>
>> decked out
>> to the point I
>> want is about $1400, but the 6 cell battery with maybe 3
>> hours of battery
>> life...ugh
>> http://zareason.com/shop/__**Verix-2.5.html<http://zareason.com/shop/__Verix-2.5.html>
>>
>> <http://zareason.com/shop/**Verix-2.5.html<http://zareason.com/shop/Verix-2.5.html>>
>> with a few
>> upgrades goes to
>> $2300 or so, everything I could want, but nearly $900 more.
>> I know you pay a bit of a premium going with a non top tier
>> vendor that
>> supports linux, but I've heard good things about them, and
>> enjoyed their
>> talk on "RetroGnome" at SCALE X.
>> What do folks think? And what other laptop vendors that
>> support Linux
>> (with good NVidia graphics cards in them, I won't do Intel
>> graphics ever
>> again).
>> Thanks
>> Phil Waclawski
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