<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ohstopitu</author><text>Dell sells a few &amp;quot;developer editions&amp;quot; of their XPS13 with Ubuntu preloaded [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dell.com&amp;#x2F;ca&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu&amp;#x2F;pd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dell.com&amp;#x2F;ca&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>As much as I like Ubuntu, I have a significantly higher level of trust in Red Hat to get this right for some reason. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just confidence in the company&amp;#x27;s core principles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve hit a point where I&amp;#x27;m ready to move on from my Macbook Pro after about 10 years and I&amp;#x27;ve been looking at Linux laptop options. It&amp;#x27;s mind boggling that it&amp;#x27;s so hard to find good options.&lt;p&gt;Everything seems to revolve around &amp;quot;get a Windows laptop and wipe it&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;buy some flavor of old Thinkpad&amp;quot; with warnings about EFI and compatibility. Then there are company&amp;#x27;s like System76 who have what looks like a good offering on the surface but I keep seeing threads about bad experiences with them.&lt;p&gt;If I could order a laptop direct from Red Hat I&amp;#x27;d do it without hesitation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/08/12/want-make-linux-run-better-on-laptops/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t need to buy an old ThinkPad; current-generation ThinkPads work fine, as long as you avoid nVidia GPUs.  All the other hardware (including power management) Just Works.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>As much as I like Ubuntu, I have a significantly higher level of trust in Red Hat to get this right for some reason. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just confidence in the company&amp;#x27;s core principles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve hit a point where I&amp;#x27;m ready to move on from my Macbook Pro after about 10 years and I&amp;#x27;ve been looking at Linux laptop options. It&amp;#x27;s mind boggling that it&amp;#x27;s so hard to find good options.&lt;p&gt;Everything seems to revolve around &amp;quot;get a Windows laptop and wipe it&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;buy some flavor of old Thinkpad&amp;quot; with warnings about EFI and compatibility. Then there are company&amp;#x27;s like System76 who have what looks like a good offering on the surface but I keep seeing threads about bad experiences with them.&lt;p&gt;If I could order a laptop direct from Red Hat I&amp;#x27;d do it without hesitation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/08/12/want-make-linux-run-better-on-laptops/</url></story>