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Well, DHH managed to attract Dell, which are kinda sorta promising through a single representative that their new XPS laptops are fully tested with Omarchy:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bic2KjFFj6w?si=g0wyGBQi63NmhWr5...

So that's encouraging. But still, I don't see any acknowledgement on the Dell site (apart from a single blog post) about their stance on supporting and testing linux on their laptops.

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Dell have pre-installed & fully supported Ubuntu on a bunch of their Precision, XPS, and, more recently, Pro laptops for over a decade now.

Those supported models are always a good choice for running other Linux distros, too (I've run a vanilla Debian on 3 different models during that time without having the do anything special).

As I understand it, Omarchy isn't really doing any low-level development work - it's just an opinionated set of defaults & various non-free add-ons on top of Arch. Any laptop supported by Arch will work.

Here you can see which Laptops are "certified" for Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops

From my experience most of the support hinges on the WiFi chipset, so some Dells have great support while others have none.

They do ship a custom kernel specifically to improve XPS support.

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