In When Do You Trade in Your Gibbon for a Heron?, I mentioned that I’m considering upgrading my System76 laptop from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. A commenter named Scummy suggested that a similarly configured Dell system is cheaper: "Dude - you just paid a $350 ‘Linux Tax’ by NOT going mainstream in your hardware…" Maybe so, but I think not. It depends on what you value.
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