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Does Dell gets paid from Canonical to install Ubuntu?

Why not OpenBSD, Debian, FreeBSD or Arch?

In my opinion we have to do more to free driver source code. To use Ubuntu does not support this I think.

Most/all of the laptop drivers are in the kernel and would be universal, or mostly universal, with other distros. I don't really care if Canonical or Red Hat or Theo de Raadt paying for it, since it will almost certainly be comparable with other distros and would be free of the Windows Tax; if you don't want OpenBSD or Unbuntu then just install something else. Plus you can do the SHA1 sum when doing your own install and know it's a valid ISO from the source.

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