Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller takes the Fedora Linux 39 pre-release for a spin on the new Fedora Slimbook laptop, a powerful laptop by the Spanish man...
  • @[email protected]
    10•1 year ago

    I don’t understand the idea of branding laptops with distros, I thought the whole point of OSS is that it should not matter what OS you choose to put on your laptop.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      26•1 year ago

      It’s a partnership for those that really want the distro branding and that want to see part of the money spent going back to fund FOSS development (as 3% of the sales goes to the GNOME Foundation). For those that don’t, it’s basically just a Slimbook Executive 16.

      • @[email protected]
        5•1 year ago

        ah okay that’s nice, fair enough!

        Personally in that case I’d rather buy a framework, purism, system76 or similar laptop and keep donating to OSS as I already do.

        • @[email protected]OP
          2•1 year ago

          makes sense, whatever works best for you, in the end it’s great to have more options in the market

    • @just_another_person
      4•1 year ago

      Not sure where you heard that. Each distro is highly tailored to its own composition of features and purposes. Some are very lean and locked into specific kernel modules, and some others go for the widest possible hardware support.

      The combination of hardware greatly matters with any Linux distro, mostly because many hardware manufacturers are not contributing upstream kernel modules for their products, so sometimes support for newer hardware lags behind until the OSS community get them written and included.