not defending dell cus they're still subpar but cmon
@wowaname @mr_penguin To be fair, they did try to get Linux users to buy their computers by offering Dell computers with Linux preinstalled, so something as trivial as this might have pissed them off.
The industry sucks. There are barely any decent options. It isn't that hard to ship a decent GNU/Linux system. Stop shipping proprietary garbage and you'll have a system that is amazing and well supported for decades and decades to come. Ya got companies like Systen76 also conducting publicity stunts by shipping coreboot, but then also depending on proprietary software elsewhere and effectively tying their systems to ~1-2 distros rather than designing something properly.
Dell selling Linux was/is a publicity stunt. Never on the front page always hidden. They were actually undermining adoption by shipping garbage that didn't even work. I had customers at the time they started who got their first models and they shipped out non functioning PCs. Then they shipped systems that stopped working or only worked with some homegrown crap. That isn't GNU/Linux. It is some retardation. I can't say that isn't also the case for most 'Linux dealers' too.
