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Is the hardware exactly the same as the non-developer version?

... meaning, could you order one with Windows 10 and then later down the line decide to run Linux on it and not have any issues?

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In the past dell has changed the wifi chip and GPU on the linux variants they sell. I'd check for those differences whenever you buy. In particular the intel wifi has a much better linux driver than anything else dell sells in laptops.

No, AFAIK they remove the fingerprint sensor on the developer edition (as there's no Linux support for it).

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