Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller takes the Fedora Linux 39 pre-release for a spin on the new Fedora Slimbook laptop, a powerful laptop by the Spanish man...
  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I don't understand the idea of branding laptops with distros, I thought the whole point of OSS is that it should not matter what OS you choose to put on your laptop.

    • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It's a partnership for those that really want the distro branding and that want to see part of the money spent going back to fund FOSS development (as 3% of the sales goes to the GNOME Foundation). For those that don't, it's basically just a Slimbook Executive 16.

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        ah okay that's nice, fair enough!

        Personally in that case I'd rather buy a framework, purism, system76 or similar laptop and keep donating to OSS as I already do.

        • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          makes sense, whatever works best for you, in the end it's great to have more options in the market

    • Display Name@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      No?

      Yet you may install other distros if you want to.

      This is a laptop with no connections to microsoft or apple. Profit goes to fedora.