Dell Latitudes are Great Laptops (and they run Ubuntu well)

I had a series of MSI laptops that worked great, long before Linux support started gaining mindshare. I got a Dell Venue 11 Pro kind of on a lark & it was a lovely machine. Bright screen, very portable, good battery life, great clamshell detachable keyboard that was really easy to use on the lap, had good key-feel, and which doubled the battery capacity. One of the two cameras worked decent.

I know there's a lot of reasons for pause & concern, especially when investing a bunch of money, but my feeling is that we fairly radically under-expect how much things will just work on most laptops. My more recent Samsung thing has had some custom fancy hardware stuff on it that have had some problems (onboard speaker's amplifier doesn't turn on, webcams don't work, wireless was a struggle for a while (used a usb stick instead)).

Alas the recent Dell equivalents to my old Venue 11 Pro are much much more expensive than the Venue 11 Pro retailed for.

After how they botched up the G5 SE, I'm never buying or recommending Dell ever again. Get a ThinkPad if you want to run Linux.

my 5520 hasn't got the ethernet port driver and no external monitors work either, on ubuntu 18.04