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As a customer of Entroware and a user of their machines for both work and play, I can in all good conscience give a hearty thumbs-up to them, their service, their hardware and their support.
I also use other hardware from companies that build just for Linux, namely System-76 (from the USA), and Nimbus, much nearer home in the North East of England - https://nimbusoftstore.com/
Based on my personal experiences with them all over the years, I am happy to recommend them to anyone who wants a machine born to run Linux from the outset (including those with nvidea cards). That said, these days, I do my best to support the small privately owned and run concerns wherever possible, and preferably those more local to me here in the UK.
If there is one thing I have found over the years, to buy and then use a machine designed to run Linux out of the box is a delight when compared to one that is not, and even with the benefit of hind-sight I have to say, worth every penny spent.
So, in summary, I totally agree; these people should be supported and encouraged by us all wherever possible.
Aidan On 09/04/17 12:09, Neil via list wrote:
Last year Linux celebrated its 25th birthday. I have been using Linux exclusively for 17 years. Yet even after all that time it is still difficult to find a computer that was built from scratch to be used with Linux.There are one or two companies, such as Dell, which provide computers with Linux already installed. I know that. But I think that it is just a sideline for them and not taken really seriously. And they are expensive. And I wonder how much time and effort they put in to making sure they will work well with Linux.Another option is to use a company such as pcspecialist, zoostorm or novatech. They will send you a computer with no OS installed. This means that you do not have the problem of paying the Windows licence fee or of trying to get a refund. But what do you really get? A computer that was built for Windows, tested on Windows, but just with no OS installed. In my experience there is no effort to check that it will work with Linux. You are on your own. If it has an nvidia graphics card, for example, you may well have problems getting it to work.So I was very pleased, and surprised this week to come across a company which was set up to provide computers with Linux both installed and tested, although this really means Ubuntu. The company is called entroware [1] and they are a UK company, somewhere in the Liverpool area. Anyway I have been looking at their site and reading some reviews. It seems that they have nothing to do with Windows, and they set up and test their machines with Ubuntu installed. Or you can have one without any OS if you want.So, I think that this should be supported and encouraged. Anyway, it may be new to some of you, and I hope you find it interesting,Neil [1] https://www.entroware.com
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