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Just signed up. Would love to hear more about your business. It's really a pain to find a laptop that would not suck under Linux for any of the important dimens
by TY 14y ago
Just signed up. Would love to hear more about your business. It's really a pain to find a laptop that would not suck under Linux for any of the important dimensions (wifi, battery life, external monitor support, working fn keys and etc).
I know of System76 and etc, but their hardware doesn't inspire me much (spoiled by Apple).
- revorad 14y agoThanks for signing up! We want to build the best computers for programmers at the best price with the OS most programmers run on their servers and dev machines anyway. All the issues you mention and others relating to graphics continue to exist because there is no single organisation focusing on the full hardware+software stack. [1] It is really hard to get everything working on such a huge range of hardware with software that keeps moving so fast. So we are starting by focusing on just getting everything working on some of the best existing machines - Thinkpads. If you have any ideas or requests for your ideal setup, please share them here or email me at hrishi@giniji.com. [1] I don't want to take any credit away from System76 and other similar companies. They've done a great job, but they don't seem to be proactive in pushing things forward.
- rbanffy 14y ago> It's really a pain to find a laptop that would not suck under Linux for any of the important dimensions (wifi, battery life, external monitor support, working fn keys and etc). I have nothing but good things to say about Dell computers. Of course, I am a bit careful not to choose ATI or Nvidia graphics or anything that seems designed to run only Windows. The v131 I'm using now works perfectly (and came with Ubuntu preinstalled). Having a version that comes preinstalled with Linux is a good indicator the machine will work properly with it.
- sciurus 14y agoI was about to chime in and say that it's a shame Dell stopped selling computers with Ubuntu, but I see that they've started to do so again! http://dell.com/ubuntu http://dell.com/ubuntu The specs on the Vostro 1440 don't seem much different than the Inspiron 1420N I bought with Ubuntu 5 years ago.
- revorad 14y agoThe trouble with Dell laptops is that the quality variance is really high. Mostly anecdotally speaking, I've found that the number of people who had a terrible experience with Dell and the number who had a good one are about equal. The most common problem is the battery conking out after a year or so, and then the replacement choice is either a ridiculously expensive one from Dell (which costs a third of the laptop itself!) or a cheap Chinese gamble from ebay. The screen hinges also break sooner than later. Still, I think on the cheaper end, Dell laptops are better than Acer and Toshiba. Their keyboards are not amazing but at least they don't try to do any cute stunts with them. The Vostro is surprisingly well built. Shame the Ubuntu version is not available in the UK (or maybe I just failed their website easter egg hunt).