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This isn’t a laptop I would personally buy for many of the reasons others have put in this thread, but it’s incredible to see such a focused SKU from HP here.

This isn’t a laptop I would personally buy for many of the reasons others have put in this thread, but it’s incredible to see such a focused SKU from HP here. This will likely be a small volume product and it is almost certainly based on something else in the HP portfolio (advantage of being such a huge OEM), but it’s nice to see a developer marketed laptop in this way. And running a distro other than straight Ubuntu or Red Hat, even. To me, this indicates that the market research teams at HP have seen the success of Framework and the various Clevo/Sager/Tongfang machines from Tuxedo, System76, XMG, etc. to see this as a viable market worth testing. Obviously, Dell has been doing this for years with the XPS Developer Edition or whatever they call it now, but it is nice to see a product from one of the other big laptop makers.

2143 4y ago
Agreed. It's a good thing that more OEMs are supporting Linux out of the box.
- jseliger 4y ago
  It's surprising to me that OEMs don't try to make every machine they sell Linux-ready and compatible, at the very least: OEMs have tied themselves to Microsoft by neglecting Linux, and in the process been party to problems like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952. If OEMs thought ahead, they could have made these changes 10 or 15 years ago, and perhaps have broken through the cost of Microsoft licenses. Instead, they've chosen what seems to be the short-sighted path.
  - lnxg33k1 4y ago
    I to be honest have started thinking that there is a mutual interest for OEMs and Microsoft to support each other, like how many new laptops are going to be sold thanks to the windows 11 requirements? Meanwhile you get a Linux distro on a laptop from 20 years ago and either lxde or xfce or whatever and it runs almost like new OEMs then save the cost of license but open a Pandora box of voiding absolescence
midislack 4y ago
Are we sure it’s just one SKU?
- usr1106 4y ago
  Hopefully not. Because then it were not available internationally.

2143 4y ago

Agreed. It's a good thing that more OEMs are supporting Linux out of the box.

jseliger 4y ago
It's surprising to me that OEMs don't try to make every machine they sell Linux-ready and compatible, at the very least: OEMs have tied themselves to Microsoft by neglecting Linux, and in the process been party to problems like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952. If OEMs thought ahead, they could have made these changes 10 or 15 years ago, and perhaps have broken through the cost of Microsoft licenses. Instead, they've chosen what seems to be the short-sighted path.
- lnxg33k1 4y ago
  I to be honest have started thinking that there is a mutual interest for OEMs and Microsoft to support each other, like how many new laptops are going to be sold thanks to the windows 11 requirements? Meanwhile you get a Linux distro on a laptop from 20 years ago and either lxde or xfce or whatever and it runs almost like new OEMs then save the cost of license but open a Pandora box of voiding absolescence

midislack 4y ago

Are we sure it’s just one SKU?

usr1106 4y ago
Hopefully not. Because then it were not available internationally.