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by whyonearth 2750 days ago
I think it's a bit contradictory to choose an insecure OS because a more secure one doesn't support a nice-to-have piece of security hardware. That aside, I'd be interested in the specifics of the "too many problems" that you anticipate on supported hardware (which includes most configurations of the XPS and Precision).
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> I think it's a bit contradictory to choose an insecure OS because a more secure one doesn't support a nice-to-have piece of security hardware.

Maybe. But that has nothing to do with what I wrote.

> I'd be interested in the specifics

Would you? Or would you like to gather factoids in pursuit of your belief that everyone must make the choices you make?

> that you anticipate on supported hardware

Not "anticipate". Experienced, after installation (more than once). It was more trouble than it was worth to me.

> on supported hardware

As I say, I don't think there's a developer edition of the 9570. There isn't an extant linux driver for the fingerprint scanner, which surely there would be if Dell preinstalled linux on this model.