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On 30 March 2013, at 22:20, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> As per the subject line, I'm asking if current Dells have any |
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> showstoppers for Gentoo. If not, I'll probably go with a Dell. |
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I would think Dell would probably be a very good choice. |
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I know that they support Linux on all their PowerEdge servers (RedHat and I think Suse and now recently they've added Ubuntu certification), and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they offered Linux-supported desktops, too. |
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I'd be surprised if there was a Dell that Linux didn't run on, TBH. |
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> My usage patterns may be different from yours, but Dells have lasted more |
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> years for me than other brands or custom-built machines. |
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Yeah, I have most always recommended Dell, myself. |
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Generally speaking they have best, or amongst the best, economies of scale when it comes to off-the-shelf desktop PCs. Gamers are never satisfied with the graphics cards in off-the-shelf desktop PCs, everyone else is. |
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It's all very well building your own PC - and I'll likely do that myself next time - until you're posting here saying "I'm experiencing random reboots and kernel panics, every 12 hours or so, and I don't know which of these dozen components to return to the supplier". You can spend hours debugging that - I've known such hardware crashes to be caused by RAM, by power supplies and even by floppy drives and CD-ROMs - and it's more than my time's worth, honestly. It's worth a hundred quid to me not to have to deal with that. |
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I've had amazing service on Dell's business support, even at the bronze level. An acquaintance's son's laptop died with a failed GPU and regular artefacts at 13 months old, warranty expired by a month. One snotty letter later, "sale of goods act, european law, up to 6 years" and a little Dell man was on his doorstep, very helpful. |
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http://lists.us.dell.com/ |
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I don't have experience of UEFI/secureboot, but I'll bet that the popular alarm is unwarranted. "Microsoft are trying to make it impossible to boot linux" is the sort of think we've been hearing since Halloween '98. |
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Stroller. |