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Ubuntu Certified Hardware has passed our extensive testing and review process, ensuring that Ubuntu runs optimally out of the box, ready for your organisation. Canonical provides continuous support throughout the lifecycle of the Ubuntu release to ensure quality, functionality, and maintenance for up to 10 years

Where are Purism, System76, Tuxedo Computers, Starlabs, SlimbookES, and others? Instead there’s Dell, HP, ASUS, and Fujitsu…

  • scrapeus@feddit.de
    9·
    11 months ago

    Well because of money. You certainly have to pay to get Ubuntu certificated. And you only do this to have a Linux system with support from the manufacturer.

    It’s an enterprise problem with an enterprise solution.

    The normal personal systems are not in the same segment.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      4·
      11 months ago

      Precisely. It’s not just “it works”, it’s third-party hardware that Canonical tests, certifies and commits to support as fully compatible. They’ll do the work to make sure everything works perfectly, not just when upstream gets around to it. They’ll patch whatever is necessary to make it work. The use case is “we bought 500 laptops from Dell and we’re getting a support contract from Canonical that Ubuntu will run flawlessly on it for the next 5 years minimum”.

      RedHat has the exact same: https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware

      Otherwise, most Linux OEMs just focus on first party support for their own hardware. They all support at least one distro where they ensure their hardware runs. Some may or may not also have enterprise support where they commit to supporting the hardware for X years, but for an end user, it just doesn’t matter. As a user, if an update breaks your WiFi, you revert and it’s okay. If you have 500 laptops and an update breaks WiFi, you want someone to be responsible for fixing it and producing a Root Cause Analysis to justify the downtime, lost business and whatnot.

  • db2@sopuli.xyz
    8·
    11 months ago

    At a guess, probably because the ones made with Linux in mind aren’t the ones you won’t be sure of.

      • boblin@infosec.pub
        11·
        11 months ago

        Take a machine with Linux preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Yeah, of course.

        Take a machine with Windows preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Check the list.

  • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    This is corporate-grade stuff. That’s why only Dell, HP and Lenovo bothered certifying their laptops. They hold an oligopoly for fleet laptops.

  • Matombo@feddit.de
    1·
    11 months ago

    It’s expensive af and only worth it if you have dell/hp/asus/fujitsu like volumes. The Linux first venders are sadly not there yet.