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Yes, running Linux on Windows hardware is often a recipe for misery, or at least dealing with obscure kernel parameters. Which is why I've said and will say ag
by trelane 4y ago
Yes, running Linux on Windows hardware is often a recipe for misery, or at least dealing with obscure kernel parameters.
Which is why I've said and will say again: slapping Linux on Windows hardware is a mug's game. Buy it preinstalled, from a company that supports it. We actually have that option these days, and it's amazing.
Some days, I swear the smartest thing Apple ever did was prevent users from slapping OSX on commodity Windows hardware.
- jahewson 4y agoWhat is “Windows hardware”?
- codewiz 4y agoHardware sold with Windows preinstalled, by vendors who won't support anything else than Windows. I simply avoid them.
- pessimizer 4y agoOr just look up your "windows hardware" before you buy and check compatibility. Companies that sell laptops with preinstalled Linux are far more often than not just selling rebranded "windows hardware." The benefit is that you get a support number, and that they have paid attention to the Linux compatibility of the models in their range.
- trelane 4y ago> Companies that sell laptops with preinstalled Linux are far more often than not just selling rebranded "windows hardware." What examples do you have of this?
- p4bl0 4y agoDell did that.
- trelane 4y agoWhich models did they do that with? I'd heard the xps with Linux was pretty good, at least for a while.
- p4bl0 4y agoYes, most XPS and Latitude laptops.
- trelane 4y agoWhat were the equivalent white box vendors and did they ship with the same firmwares? Citation to read up in this?
- p4bl0 4y agoI don't understand what you mean by "white box". Just look for yourself it's really not hard to find: https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems
- trelane 4y agoSure, I can look up Dell Linux products. However, the assertion was that they're just branded white box computers, so Im asking what the white box equivalents are, and to what extent they're really equivalent.