that’s one of the reasons i think Lenovo has won the laptop war, they include all operating systems and make it very easy to install any on your device, i love Ubuntu a lot, and chromeOS too
that’s one of the reasons i think Lenovo has won the laptop war, they include all operating systems and make it very easy to install any on your device, i love Ubuntu a lot, and chromeOS too
Dell also sells computers with Ubuntu installed. And I trust Dell.
That said, Ubuntu isn’t my favorite flavor, so I’m likely to wipe it and install a different distro no matter what.
I’ve had such a miserable experience with the XPS 13. Kind of bitter about it.
Thanks for the warning. I’m looking to replace my Inspiron, and the XPS series seems to be a contender.
I’ve had a couple of issues with the Inspiron (the hinge broke just after the warranty expired and the keyboard has a busted spring that blocks five keys from working), but it also lives on my backpack for teaching, so I probably can’t really complain.
Why? What wasn’t working right?
Still haven’t gotten the camera working. They seem to load up their custom firmware in their Ubuntu build but I wanted Arch btw. Also have some issues with recovering from sleep but can’t say for sure if it’s hardware/driver related.
Non-Linux related, it’s only got 2 USB-C ports for external connectivity. Temperatures also seem to be all over the place. All might be forgivable if the keyboard wasn’t basically a flat sheet of plastic where your fingers can’t tell the keys apart.
Man if you insist on Arch that’s a you problem and not a hardware platform problem. I’m not a Dell fanboy but my XPS 13 is doing great, six years in with a battery change running of all things Win10 with WSL. It’s hassle-free dev environment.
Is DBAN still the go to for a clean wipe?
Doesn’t the installation of the new OS do the wiping? I was wondering because I never did it differently.
It all depends on how sure you want to be that whatever was there previously is unrecoverable.
DBAN is up to DOD standards if I remember correctly.
I haven’t a clue, I just never chanced it. When I’d sell a PC I’d always DBAN it.
Pretty sure it’s still a functional option at least… Seems to remember it still being there on the last Hiren’s boot I used.
I’ve never used it, but it seems to have good recommendations. Honestly, I just rip out the HDD/SSD before letting the machine out of my sight. That’s the only method I really trust.
For wiping before a Linux install, I usually use gparted or the installer’s tool.
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I prefer Mint for ease of installation and use. It comes in Ubuntu or Debian flavors.
I also have a RaspberryPi that runs Raspbian (Debian based, I think) and a tiny Linode server that runs Debian. Honestly, I tend to go with the easiest or most lightweight, depending on hardware.
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I hear you about finite brain cells. I had a group of international students several year ago who ran Zorin on their laptops. As the tech coordinator for our academic department, I tried to learn enough to help them out. But it was apparently the first thing I flushed after they left. :)
Personally, I use Fedora KDE Spin because it’s stable, has an aggressive update schedule and if I want something from AUR or something, I’ll just use its OCI in distrobox and get it anyway. I also prefer flatpaks over snaps.
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