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I bought one of their laptops years ago and liked it; I eventually bequeathed it to a sister-in-law, who seems to like it well enough. I probably won't buy the
by zeveb 10y ago
I bought one of their laptops years ago and liked it; I eventually bequeathed it to a sister-in-law, who seems to like it well enough.
I probably won't buy their stuff again, because I only run Debian these days, but I think that they're a decent company and I recommend them to folks who want to run Ubuntu.
- bisby 10y agoOut of curiosity, where do you go for pre-built Debian systems, or completely OS-less systems? I would think that merely having the promise of Ubuntu support out of the box would make it better to install Debian, than on some random Windows machine.
- zeveb 10y ago> Out of curiosity, where do you go for pre-built Debian systems, or completely OS-less systems? I've been pretty happy with Zareason so far, although these days one does often have to contact them ahead of time to be sure Debian will run fine. > I would think that merely having the promise of Ubuntu support out of the box would make it better to install Debian, than on some random Windows machine. I'd have thought so, too, except that getting Debian onto my System76 laptop was no fun at all. Ubuntu really is tolerant of non-free software, binary blobs and other things that I'd like to get away from.
- bisby 10y agoMakes sense. System76 will make Linux work, but not blob-free Linux. Which makes it no better than Windows for you. It's not "harder" or "easier" per se, but having Ubuntu guarantees nothing over Windows. I often forget that other people have different use cases than myself. Thanks for the insight :)