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Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My work laptop is a Dell Precision. It was a "data science" model that came with Ubuntu. Wiped Dell's modified Ubuntu and put vanilla Ubuntu on it and now running Nixos. Works great. There was a weird period when using triple monitors with their dock had an intermittent issue on boot where resolutions and monitors were not being detected. Cause was Nvidia drivers. It eventually got resolved and it was easy enough to rollback the drivers to one that worked.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Cause was Nvidia drivers.

This should be on a t-shirt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The older models were also very repairable and customisable. Most newer ones aren't. This is a problem for some users.