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On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> > The XPS 13 at least is available as a "Developer Edition" that comes |
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>> > with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. |
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>> I "dual boot" windows and gentoo. The quotes are there since my current |
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>> machine (3 years old) has never been in windows post-installation. The |
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>> advantage of having windows available occurs if you need dell |
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>> maintenance. |
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> Which is a rather poor reason for keeping Windows around. The Ubuntu |
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> version is not significantly cheaper, but it would make dealing with |
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> support that much easier if the machine was supposed to have Linux on it |
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> in the first place. |
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The cost (after purchase) is a few 10s of GB of disk. Dell's remote hw |
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diagnostics work well when you boot windows. My wife's machine is dell |
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windows-only and she did make use of dell maintenance. |
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That said, in order to confirm linux support for the various hardware |
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pieces, I did temporarily select ubuntu. The result was that Wi-Gig |
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wireless and LCD screen are not supported so I changed to the non Wi-Gig |
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versions. |
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allan |
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