My new (dell E7450) laptop will be a slimline with no internal optical drive. So I want to purchase an external optical drive. My first thought was to get a drive that is both a blue ray READER and a dvd writer
I naively thought that USB is USB so any such drive would work. However googling (especially linux sites) shows pages devoted to DRM issues. Although I do not intend to rip or write a blu-ray, the number of pages devoted to DRM seem to indicate more pain than gain for the few times I might read a blu ray. An alternative is to buy from dell a dvd-only drive they say works with ubuntu (an OS distribution they support). I don't believe dell sells blu ray drives. Opinions? thanks, allan
