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Dell is so frustrating (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dell has got to be one of the most frustrating companies that put out a linux laptop. They put out a laptop certified for ubuntu but then never support newer releases. A big part of their hardware is always proprietary drivers like webcam, fingerprint reader etc.. Then you update to a new LTS release because lets be serious 20.04 at this point is going to sunset in a couple of years... However after you update the webcam stops working, or some other hardware stops working. Then you are constantly troubleshooting to get it working and every kernel update it breaks again. If you ever did ask support they will just tell you to go back to 20.04 image from dell. Not to mention all their OS tools are made for windows even the ones for making linux recovery images... like WTF! I am two years in on this laptop and I am just getting rid of it I cannot put up with this nonsense anymore from them.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The problem is, that there are not many notebook producer, that are

Supporting Linux
Have reasonable prices and hardware
(Are not from an authoritarian country that has shady spying practices and uses slave labour)

There is Dell, Acer, Framwork and that's it, I guess?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bought a Yoga Pro 7 7840HS 32GB 1TB. Everything works fine in Linux. Battery does 8-10h on full charge, good build quality, no issues with any parts. Running EndeavourOS after had some minor issues with Manjaro, WiFi connecting 1 minute after booting and some weird disconnects after a while. No such thing in EndeavourOS.

Running idle with minimum brightness, Bluetooth off, WiFi connected and keyboard backlight turned off consumes minimum 3.6W. Got it less than $900 around 4 months ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

(Are not from an authoritarian country that has shady spying practices and uses slave labour)

So you're not buying Frameworks, Acers, Hewlett-Packards, or Lenovos then? The NSA codified 'shady spying practices' via domestic spying on their own people, and we've been using prison slaves since the drafting of the 14th Amendment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I put the last one in brackets, because it is debatable. But my hole point is, that there are not many producers out there to chose from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Dell is an American company? As is Framwork, (I think?).

The US is the most authoritarian state in the world with over 20% of the world's prison population in its slave labour camps.