there are few PC vendors (Dell included) offering first class Linux support for some of their products. You can order a laptop with Linux installed out of the box. No need to use old and outdated hardware.
But the most confusing thing to me is that I also found Precision 3480, which looks exactly same as that Latitude 5440, is available in similar configurations and even costs roughly the same. I struggle to understand what is going on here, why is the seemingly same thing sold under two different models?
Except they aren't??
https://www.dell.com/de-de/shop/dell-notebooks/precision-776...