On 6/2/2015 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
System76 is peachy. They don't design their hardware, but they specify it and maintain drivers for everything that they sell.
Which is essentially zero work for them if they pick the hardware right which is not difficult. Get a main board with Realtek audio, Intel LAN, Intel WiFi/BT (but not the Killer series), Intel ACHI chipset, and be careful about the GPU selection if you want to use open source drivers. Intel and Realtek and Nvidia/AMD do all the work and System76 gets the credit.
This isn't a knock on System76 as such. I'm just saying to look to the ODM rather than the OEM. System76 buys the same kinds of bare-bones Clevo chassis that Sager and Mythlogic and other OEMs buy, chassis that work with vanilla Debian if you use the non-free firmware installer.
I recently bought a Clevo P750ZM from Mythlogic, no OS (Mythlogic is one of the few vendors that offer the option) although they offer Ubuntu for most/all of their notebooks. Vanilla Debian 8 with the non-free firmware package works just peachy down to the Intel RST RAID set.
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