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"Developer profiles"? What does that mean? It will install node && jshint && vim for me or what?

What I want out of a linux ready laptop from Dell (or anyone):

1. Make the hardware and OS play nice. 2. Nothing

I can do the rest just please make the display, media keys, battery, drives, etc. work flawlessly. Profiles & all that stuff are no selling point at all.

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Hopefully developer profiles will come to mean something like a developer version of Ninite to configure and install common apps, frameworks, and libraries in literally just a few clicks. This is often a long, painful process that is all too familar, and should be totally automated.

On Linux it's a matter of writing a one-line shell script to automate that process. I wrote such a script to reinstall packages after doing a clean install of Ubuntu, and it was entirely painless.

That's pretty useful, do you think I could get a copy of that"?

I've never used Ninite once... shouldn't your package manager take care of this for you?

It would appear you've never used Linux in the last 5-10 years.

sudo apt-get install nodejs npm

sudo apt-get install django

$ sudo apt-get install nodejs npm sudo: apt-get: command not found $ sudo apt-get install django sudo: apt-get: command not found

lol... are you using debian? check your package manager ;)

3. A middle mouse button.

replaces the [CapsLock] key with [Ctrl]

At the hardware level? No thanks, this should be left as-is - I rebind Caps_Lock to Esc, and I'd rather be allowed to remap it to whatever I want without interfering with other keys.

Within X? Sure, put whatever defaults you want - this is for end-users, not developers, so they'll probably end up overriding them anyway....

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