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This is patently false. As of now my Dell laptop doesn't use any proprietary blobs to speak of.
Even if that's true, that's a different computer.
Right. This laptop will be even more open. I'm not getting it.....
I see what you're saying now. Which dell laptop is it, by the way?
I suspect what people are assuming is that your laptop might have some closed source firmware or BIOS, and I assume what System76 is saying is that this won't be true on their Virgo laptop.
I'm a framework guy myself, at least so far.
By chance, it wouldn't happen to be the Dell Latitude E6400?
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Intel hardware is very well supported in all distros at this point. You don't need to do any configuration with intel or nvidia at this point [running the open source driver]. You can have Arch up and running in minutes on certain Dells. My two are a 2021 XPS with Arch and a L5411 with Ubuntu [for work]. Both of these IIRC you can get with Ubuntu from Dell direct.
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