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1. TwoNin+TY[view] [source] 2022-09-25 01:59:52
>>tonyst+(OP)
I am disappointed in the number of people hyping up Lenovo/Thinkpads in this thread. Lenovo is not IBM and their quality is not that great. Some models are good, but plenty of others are bad. Dell has been shipping linux for decades now and Lenovo only announced partial support on some models a year or two ago. Don't fall for the hype. Not all Lenovo/Thinkpads are good for linux (or good at all).
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2. aljgz+E01[view] [source] 2022-09-25 02:23:59
>>TwoNin+TY
> Not all Lenovo/Thinkpads are good for linux (or good at all)

That does not matter. If they have one really good model, that's enough for everyone.

>Dell has been shipping linux for decades now

I'm an Apple hater, like a vegan hates rare steak. Yet, I'm much more likely to buy my next gear from Apple than Dell. Where do I begin? For starters, everything I've bought from Dell starting with a Latitude D850, all the way to the Xps 13 I bought in 2020 and a 32 curved monitor in 2022, they were all faulty. In a large organization that with 30,000 laptops used by their employees, the IT department loves Dell's support: anything breaks, they will fix/replace it in 24 hours or a few hours depending on your guaranty level. But for me? I prefer it to work well to begin with. My Asus N550 worked for me for 7 years and it was top notch until the bed broke and destroyed it. I've never had a dell product that had zero problems. The latitude would flicker for minutes if for whatever reason screen went off and on. The xps's webcam stopped working and would randomly connect in certain angles of the lid. The laptop was advertised to support linux, but there was no fingerprint reader and when they released it, it was Ubuntu only. The monitor starts to flicker randomly and the replacement they sent me has a corner with ~100 pixels showing whatever they like, waiting for a second replacement.

Never Dell again.

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