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Razer Certifying Their First Laptop For Linux: Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 Review (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 92 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Regardless of opinions on Razer this is a win. The bug corps are finally paying a bit of attention

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    There has been corps like dell offering Linux distros like 10-15 years ago, it just never was an attractive option compared to windows

    But windows is killing itself

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    This is a gaming laptop though, it's a different market

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    why they test it with Ubuntu then

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You can run games on any distribution, they're basically all the same...

    Although I wouldn't have picked Ubuntu, but anything else would be fine.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Yeah like the example dudeface give, Dell have been offering Linux options since a decade ago in my country. Just have to go to their commerce website instead. Same with Lenovo here.

    And both of them offer Ubuntu with the expected discount of a Windows license.

    I assume Canonical did a lot of legwork to make big brands like that to adopt Ubuntu. IMO it is still the more well known Linux distribution that seems more suited for the non techy segment of Dell and Lenovo customers.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, I bought a Dell laptop for that reason. Turns out the spec I wanted wasn't available with Linux preinstalled, so I had to buy the Windows machine and install it myself anyway. At least I never had any real driver issues or anything else like that. Laptop lasted 10+ years running Linux practically the entire time.

    Props to any OEM who supports Linux, bigger props to anyone who ships Linux preinstalled, biggest props to those who favor Linux by default and charge extra to install Windows or refuse to do it outright!

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 3 months ago*

    Razer could bring the biggest bump to Linux market share since the Steam Deck, or possibly even more

    The current biggest weakness of Linux is lack of OEMs shipping it. Most people do not want to install an OS themselves, or even know that it's possible.

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