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Damnit, I used plenty of moto G's for android development they were great mainly because you could actually buy unlike Nexus constant shortages. Lenovo like most Chinese corps not friendly to open source I imagine they will replace fastboot with some crippled proprietary junk, and be unfriendly to kernel mods

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Really? Thinkpads are the most recommended laptops for running Linux. When I ordered mine, Lenovo even gave me a discount when I told them I didn't want Windows and wanted to run Linux.

They even have certified some of their products for Linux...

Not sure where you get your info.

Inexpensive mobile market in China is 90% closed source or reluctant open source where they give you something thats almost entirely blobs to barely satisfy GPL. https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mobile/KnEn...

Most are squeezing all they can out of the MTK chipset and don't want their competition to know their mods. I'm betting they will flood US market with $80 MTK phones under the motorola brand

A lot of people are unhappy with the their latest laptop models, particularly the Thinkpads. Much of this centers around the physical design changes, but I seem to recall some observations regarding an increasing amount of struggle with UEFI and bootable images and such, as well.

In absolute terms, things may not yet be "awful", but there is a worrying trend, in many minds.

Dells ship with linux, if you buy enterprise. I got mine with ubuntu, have since moved to mint, works like a charm. Never been happier.

Yeah, now they do. Had the XPS 13 with 1080p screen and Ubuntu been available at the time I was in the market for a computer, I likely would have bought that.

I've heard that Michael Dell uses Ubuntu, I wouldn't be surprised if they offer more OS alternatives now that they're private...

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