I have a new Dell E6330 which is certified to run with Ubuntu, and came with it pre-installed: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification//hardware/201202-10559/ http:

I have a new Dell E6330 which is certified to run with Ubuntu, and came with it pre-installed: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification//hardware/201202-10559/ http://www.ubuntu.com/certification//hardware/201202-10559/ I immediately wiped it to install Debian (I'm not accepting a Dell EULA to run Linux) and found that the touchpad wasn't detected as such. Some digging revealed that there was a third party patch to linux reverse engineered from the Windows driver, not one contributed by Dell. So it seems that their efforts to upstream code required to run their hardware on other distros than the OEM image are non-existant. The Ubuntu image that comes with them also possibly contains binarf blobs (didn't check since I didn't install it, but the Ubuntu page mentions than only the OEM image is certified, not stock Ubuntu).