"This is what it looks like when an OEM stops treating Linux support as an afterthought and starts treating it as engineering. Not a checkbox on a spec sheet. Not a “works with Linux” footnote. Actual kernel work, actual upstream contributions, actual collaboration with the people building the tools developers use every day and helping the Linux community as a whole."

Kudos to #Dell folks and well done

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/

#linux #laptop #engineering #oem

Year of the Linux Laptop: Omarchy on XPS | Dell

Dell and DHH deliver Omarchy on XPS with Day One Linux support for Panther Lake — no workarounds, no waiting, no wiki posts required.

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@gisgeek billionaire PC maker teams up with fascist slop distro is the most predictable thing ever.
@starlily I'm not a DHH's supporter for sure, but having a new laptop decently supported by current Linux kernel is something rare and an important signal for the community.
@gisgeek Bullshit. Lenovo has shipped Linux machines for years now.
@starlily @gisgeek pretty dell already supports ubuntu (maybe fedora too?) on a lot of enterprise laptops already
Dell’s Developer line turns 10! -- A decade of Project Sputnik & the lessons learned | DELL Technologies

10 years ago, Dell’s first developer system, the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition became available in the US and Canada.  What made this product unique was not only that it had been devel...

DELL Technologies

@gisgeek I will also note with amusement that a notable problem in 2012 was that "the touchpad driver which at that point didn’t provide full support and lacked, among other things, palm rejection"

Trackpad palm rejection on GNU/Linux systems is still terrible today.