Linux-friendly laptops

[Tony Arnold]

Owen,

Did you do an upgrade, or a fresh install of 16.04?

I did something similar with the Dell XPS-13 'Developers edition' which had 14.04 installed. But Dell had added various bits of their own which meant upgrading never worked properly. I eventually, did a complete fresh install of 16.04 and that works fine. To Dell's credit, the bits they had added to their pre-installation they also submitted for inclusion in the standard release, hence the 16.04 install just worked.

To test, you could try booting 16.04 from a live CD and see what works and what doesn't.

Regards,
Tony.

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 20:32 +1000, Owen Thomas wrote:
Unfortunately, it seems that I had been sold on a Dell Latitude E5570 laptop with Ubuntu 14.4 "preinstalled". When I tried updating to 16.4, I lost my sound. I can get it back by running alsamixer from a terminal and activating the speaker channel manually but I have to do this every time I restart my laptop. I seem to be having problems installing Adobe Flash plugin.

I think I have a Latitude E5570 that has an Ubuntu somewhere between 14.4 and 16.4. I fear that I won't be able to upgrade to the next LTS.

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On 13 July 2017 at 20:05, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok at gmail.com<mailto:rainer.woitok at gmail.com>> wrote:
Eero and others,

On Thursday, 2017-07-13 06:59:23 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:

> ...
> Current options are:
>
> ASUS G751JT (2 of these, possibly 3)
> Dell M6700 Covet

Does anybody have  any experience with the  Germany based company Tuxedo
Computers (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com)?

Sincerely,
  Rainer

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