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Interesting to compare that strategy to System76. Test machines on as many Linux variants as possible vs create a Linux distro optimized for your hardware. Th
by istingray 5y ago
Interesting to compare that strategy to System76.
Test machines on as many Linux variants as possible vs create a Linux distro optimized for your hardware.
The first seems easy (anyone can do testing), but somewhat powerless and something customers can do themselves. The latter seems powerful (custom software, something target users don't want to do) but expensive (dev time).
- lampington 5y agoAnyone can test, true, but you need the machine in front of you to do it. There's definitely value in knowing before you buy that the manufacturer has made sure that their hardware works with your favourite distro -- and that they've chosen components specifically to make that the case. That's information you can't get about most other laptops, apart from the ones that are so popular that someone somewhere has blogged their experience.