Re: Dell prepares to rebrand

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, Retrograde wrote:

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I would be surprised if you would not be able to run linux perfectly fine on the latest and greatest XPS. I think they even sell an XPS variety with Ubuntu from the factory.

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I'm using an Optiplex and it's been flawless.  It seems to do better
with Ubuntu variants than anything else I threw at it - Elementary,
openSUSE, several BSDs, Kylin - and has no hardware issues at all.
AND, importantly, the keyboard is really truly excellent.
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Since I have a great collection of linux masters here, and for the sake of conversation, did anyone ever have this in their journalctl?
"gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file"
It's just an annoying error but does not affect me in any meaningful way. Would just be nice to be able to get rid of it.
As for keyboard, that is the weakness of my current Asus Expertbook B5. One arrow key is broken and I have a feeling that within a month or two, the E key will break as well.
My old consumer asus which by nos is about 5 years old, has no such problems. On the other hand, the screen and battery are waaaay better on the expertbook than the older consumer grade asus, so I guess there are always tradeoffs. =/