I seem to recall that when you install Ubuntu you have to specifically check a box to say you want the proprietary and patent encumbered stuff. Likely Dell lea

I seem to recall that when you install Ubuntu you have to specifically check a box to say you want the proprietary and patent encumbered stuff. Likely Dell leave that up to the user to install after unboxing. And that is one reason that Mint got popular, because they took Ubuntu and bundled that stuff right on the ISO.