Originally posted by Sesivany
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If the laptops or systems are bundled with Ubuntu, that essentially means that the hardware will work on Ubuntu and its older kernels. Which in turntturn means there is almost a near certainty that the same hardware will function on Fedora with its use of up-to-date kernels.
And in truth, a pre-installed image of Linux is not my cup of tea: the default install options, package selection and partitioning layout suggested by most distributions have never been satisfactory to me. If I bought such a laptop with a pre-installed distribution, the first thing I would do is to overwrite it with an installation done to my preferences. Which completely defeats the purpose of having a pre-installed Linux copy.
The only benefit such a machine would offer is the assurance that all the hardware will work on most, if not all, distributions.
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