Dell Now Has Ubuntu Installation Tutorial on Its Website

[henke54]

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/214623/index.html

[Copper Bezel]

Wah! Beautiful! = D Dell earns points with me today. And they have some very pretty systems now. Hmm. I think I know who I might be going with for my next system.

[aysiu]

They have a couple of different Ubuntu preinstalled options, too:

Super low-end: http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu/pd?oc=dncwf003sub&model_id=inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu

Low-end: http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu/pd?oc=dncwf002sub&model_id=inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu

Higher-end: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

[vasa1]

And this: http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3551-laptop-ubuntu/pd?ref=PD_Family

[oldfred]

I recent got a Dell Inspiron SFF model 3647 with an i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 1TB HDD.
One of the easiest installs I have done.

While not planning on using Windows I did the full Windows backup, made repair flash drive and other Windows reconfig so I could dual boot. That took me 3 days, but doing other things, had to go to store for more backup media as it took 5 DVD & two flash drives for everything I made. Last Windows was XP and had to learn new Windows gui, but a lot of screens still looked a lot like XP.

I partitioned in advance for my Ubuntu install which can take some time, but then I fully installed Ubuntu 15.04 from USB3 flash drive in 10 minutes in UEFI dual boot.
Since just a HDD that seemed very quick, but it just worked.

[Copper Bezel]

They have a couple of different Ubuntu preinstalled options, too:

Super low-end: http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu/pd?oc=dncwf003sub&model_id=inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu

Low-end: http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu/pd?oc=dncwf002sub&model_id=inspiron-14-3451-laptop-ubuntu

Higher-end: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
Oh, I know, and I much appreciate that. = D But it's also neat to see that they're encouraging the tinkering and the flexibility - you know, that you're buying a device, not an operating system - that tends to come with the Linux world. It's nice in the same way it's nice when Android handsets make installing custom ROMs easy.

And that Inspiron XPS 13 is basically sex. = O