Unfortunately, here in Brazil you can easily buy laptops with Linux pre-installed from Dell, Acer, and others. They’re cheaper, in fact.
So why “unfortunately”? Because for what I can only assume is some sort of purposeful sabotage, they use their own custom distro based on an ancient version of Ubuntu, with icons that look like ass, repositories that are missing all modern packages, horrendously bad pre-installed software, and no updates.
So if you check comments, they’re filled with people who now think “Linux” = that sistro, and thus think Linux is functionally useless.
sabatogage I assume, or they cared for a week then stopped, kinda like companies always do… chase something they think will make them more money, then abandon improving it after implementation
At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won’t know how to do this)
I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that “just works”
Unfortunately, here in Brazil you can easily buy laptops with Linux pre-installed from Dell, Acer, and others. They’re cheaper, in fact.
So why “unfortunately”? Because for what I can only assume is some sort of purposeful sabotage, they use their own custom distro based on an ancient version of Ubuntu, with icons that look like ass, repositories that are missing all modern packages, horrendously bad pre-installed software, and no updates.
So if you check comments, they’re filled with people who now think “Linux” = that sistro, and thus think Linux is functionally useless.
sabatogage I assume, or they cared for a week then stopped, kinda like companies always do… chase something they think will make them more money, then abandon improving it after implementation
“Corporate ADHD” I call it.
At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won’t know how to do this)
I was looking for a convertible laptop during the holidays and I looked for compatibility and all of them had drivers missing, like the SD card, touchscreen, orientation sensor for tablet mode, bezel sensor for tablet mode. I ended up keeping my old laptop with mint and getting an android tablet that “just works”
That’s assuming the hardware vendor didn’t use a closed fork of the kernel with their own drivers hacked into it.
That’s usually costlier. It happens, but it’s not the norm.