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One subject we often get feedback on, and it doesn’t tend to be the positive kind, is the difficulty in finding Linux systems on Dell.com. The following tweet does a good job of summing up people’s frustrations

Im sure you get this all the time – but I dont understand why it’s so hard to just search for and find detail on which laptops ship with @ubuntu on a beautiful understandable page.

Earlier this month we took a big step in addressing this issue when launched the new Linux landing page, http://www.dell.com/linux.

Out with the old

While we had a previous landing page, it wasn’t anything to write home about and it certainly didn’t leverage the slick and responsive new dell.com template.  When our old page was taken down in a recent web clean up it gave us the push we needed to bump it up on our list of things to do.  The web team who helped us through the process was awesome and we got the new page up in record time. 

The page features the following product lines (we plan to add products over time):  

• Dell XPS 13 developer edition
• Dell Precision Mobile workstations, developer edition
• Ubuntu-based and Red Hat-certified Dell Precision fixed workstations

All roads lead to…

Besides dell.com/linux you can get to the page using any of the following: 

• dell.com/sputnik
• dell.com/developer
• dell.com/developers

A journey of a thousand miles

While we still have more to do to make Linux systems easy to find on dell.com we see this as a great first step and are looking forward to bringing you more good news in the future!

Extra-credit reading:

The new site

• Dell Has A New Dedicated Site For Ubuntu And RHEL-Certified Linux Desktops And Laptops – Forbes
• Dell Makes It Easier to Find Its Growing Linux Range – omg!ubuntu!
• Dedicated Linux site for DELL  (starts @20:33)- LWDW 187
• Dell’s new web page makes finding Linux laptops and desktops easier – Liliputing

• Linux Laptop Buyer’s Guide 2019: Tips And Resources To Find A Laptop That Meets Your Needs – Forbes
• Dell’s Beautiful New Linux Laptop Features Ubuntu, 10th Gen Intel CPUs And Super Fast WiFi – Forbes
• Dell Launches New Ubuntu-Powered XPS 13 9380. Nose Cam Not Included – Forbes
• Exclusive: Dell Opens Up About Its Linux Efforts And Project Sputnik – Forbes
• Dell Shipped Linux On 162 Unique Platforms In Fiscal Year 2019 – Forbes
• Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks With Ubuntu Linux On The Dell XPS 13 – Forbes

Pau for now…