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> I’ve been waiting decades for a Linux distro that just buys a few commonly produced laptops that are likely to be produced for a few years, and then tests the
by biorach 3y ago
> I’ve been waiting decades for a Linux distro that just buys a few commonly produced laptops that are likely to be produced for a few years, and then tests the crap out of them and applies this sort of polish.
I suspect that the laptop market is far too fragmented to make this worthwhile
- jorvi 3y agoThey could do the Dell XPS 13” and 15”. Once you factor in the XPS rebadge Latitudes, that would be a pretty big number. They make for cheap pickups on the secondhand market too. And Dell already does a bunch of testing/fixing for free as they ship them with Ubuntu.
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- xcv123 3y agoThe top 6 vendors have 85% market share. Just choose Lenovo or HP or Dell. Top 6 vendors by number of units shipped, 2022 1 Lenovo 24.1% 2 HP 19.4% 3 Dell 17.5% 4 Apple 9.8% 5 Asus 7.2% 6 Acer 6.5% Others 15.5% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...
- jandrese 3y agoDo you know how many different models of laptop that HP alone is currently selling? One Hundred and Twenty. And that list has regular churn. You might think they'll all be using the same firmware and chipsets but you would be wrong. There are dozens of configurations, some older, some newer, some higher performance, etc... It's a huge mess.
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- xcv123 3y agoI know. So take OpenBSD for example. That works best on older Thinkpads. For developers personal use they focused on making those work well enough. They care less about the other models of Lenovo laptops. For Dell you would focus on XPS only, for example. https://canonical.com/blog/dell-xps-13-plus-developer-edition-now-certified-with-ubuntu-22-04-lts https://canonical.com/blog/dell-xps-13-plus-developer-editio...