On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
The "Thinkpad love" I see here IMO appears to reflect the age and experiences of the discussion participants. Early in the days of PCs there was way more diversity in hardware that could be explicitly Linux friendly or hostile, and IBM was friendlier from the start when not all were. Recall that in the 90s and 00s, HP, IBM and Dell (well DEC which was eventually consumed by Dell via Compaq) all had big legacy Unix/minicomputer businesses to protect, plus under Ballmer Microsoft was overtly and aggressively hostile. IBM probably did the best job in not letting all this get in the way of providing Linux support early on its high-end PCs, and that reputation has stuck to the Thinkpad brand to this day.
No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed the Alpha. Not Dell. -- Len Sorensen