mattl,
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Ordered an Ubuntu laptop from Dell for a colleague. Putting it through its paces and the out of box experience is pretty bad :(

It took a few weeks to show up, finally arrived.

First, the keyboard is terrible. The whole computer wobbles like a when you press anything.

mattl,
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Secondly... there's a EULA that says something like "By choosing 'I agree' blah blah blah" -- there's no "I agree" button, just continue. I guess I didn't agree to the EULA after all.

mattl,
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It boots, you do the EULA nonsense, get onto the internet (via wifi, which did just work out of the box) and make a user account. The installer downloads some things, deletes the dell-eula package and then reboots into some... Secure Boot stuff, but it's just kinda ugly and unclear what's actually going on.

mattl,
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EULA nonsense screenshot

mattl,
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Here's the stuff it does at the end of installation. Why remove the EULA package if I had to accept it?

mattl,
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Now I'm waiting for Landscape to delete the old machine so I can free up a license slot. This takes 20-30 minutes for some reason.

mattl,
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I will say that the trackpad thing feels pretty good and for a small laptop it has a fair amount of IO.

Two USB-C, two USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet, micro-SD card slot. Which is better than the MacBook Pro I'm writing this on (three USB-C, HDMI, full sized SD card)

The keyboard isn't too bad to type on, just feels... soft.

kkarhan,

@mattl like it has atrocious flex like one of those cheap tablet keyboard covers that are worse than a € 20 Perixx Keyboard but cost like €170 for a Surface Tablet?

mattl,
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@kkarhan Tried to capture it while holding my iPhone with my other hand.

video/mp4

kkarhan,

@mattl Geez, that's really atrocious...

Compared to that, the pink #IdeaPad-#Netbook that @fuchsiii owns is "classic #ThinkPad - Quality" and that was a €200 machine at release!

doctormo,

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  • mattl,
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    @doctormo Yeah. It doesn't feel very polished at all. This was an expensive computer.

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