Re: vote for Debian on Dell computers
Michael Marsh wrote:
Personally, I don't care which Linux distro Dell installs. ... *any*
distro pre-installed is a good thing,
because ... those of us with a preferred distro will have at least
some assurance
that the laptop's hardware will work with our distro of choice.
Yes! I asked Dell a couple of weeks ago to have one of their engineers
spend five minutes slapping a Knoppix CD into one of their machines and
report if sound/LAN/X worked decently well. I wasn't terribly concerned
about resolutions or sleep/suspend, etc; I just wanted a general idea
that the basics worked.
Did I get an answer?
Nope. Guess my money wasn't worth five minutes of their engineer's time.
Oh well.
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Kent West
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