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drascus via Linux • lemmy

Dell is so frustrating

Dell has got to be one of the most frustrating companies that put out a linux laptop. They put out a laptop certified for ubuntu but then never support newer releases. A big part of their hardware is always proprietary drivers like webcam, fingerprint reader etc.. Then you update to a new LTS release because lets be serious 20.04 at this point is going to sunset in a couple of years... However after you update the webcam stops working, or some other hardware stops working. Then you are constantly troubleshooting to get it working and every kernel update it breaks again. If you ever did ask support they will just tell you to go back to 20.04 image from dell. Not to mention all their OS tools are made for windows even the ones for making linux recovery images... like WTF! I am two years in on this laptop and I am just getting rid of it I cannot put up with this nonsense anymore from them.
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Nanook
Nanook friendica (DFRN)
My Dell laptop is setup dual boot Ubuntu / Whenblows, has worked flawlessly for many years.
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Nanook
Nanook friendica (DFRN)
My Dell laptop is setup dual boot Ubuntu / Whenblows, has worked flawlessly for many years.
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Eugenia
Eugenia • lemmy
I don't think you're right on this. When DELL is branding a laptop as "linux supported", then the hardware normally works out of the box with at the very least, Ubuntu (and probably by most other distros too). If you're seeing hardware incompatibilities, it's probably because the Linux kernel itself might have dropped some of the older hardware drivers from its list of support. I'm writing this on a DELL Latitude 5480 from 2017, and I have installed the latest ubuntu without any hardware issue whatsoever. Everything's just supported out of the box. No special image from DELL was ever required. So if you're seeing your hardware stop working, you should look if DELL provided closed source drivers or firmware for your laptop's hardware. If that's the case, then you didn't have a "linux supported" laptop, you had a laptop with specifically-added Linux support after the fact. I wouldn't have bought that in the first place.
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Nanook
Nanook friendica (DFRN)
@Eugenia @drascus I'm running 6.12.1, everything still works fine, so no indication of dropped support.
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