Re: Comparison
7-year-old scanner - yep
web cam - yep
Quadro GPU acceleration API support - Yep, vendor and Noveau I believe
multifunction printer - yep
pro inkjet - yep
digitizing tablet -yep
wireless mouse and keyboard - yep
docking station with extended port support; -yep, and handled the dreaded TB16 better than Windows too.
fingerprint scanner - Some do, now both Dell and Lenovo are selling Linux laptops this is coming for those that aren't supported yet.
color-calibrated 4k display - Standards be standards.
built-in hardware color calibrator; external hardware color calibrator; calibration software - Never tried two NVMe SSD's plus a SATA SSD - yep.
the latter being accelerated by the OEM-supplied RAM cache driver - Probably, or it does it itself anyway.
proprietary power and thermal manager - I've not found one that it couldn't talk to yet, nor IPMI.
multi touch trackpad- yep.
plus pointer stick - yep.
tethered MILC camera capable of supplying Live View - Web says it can.
MB1 support enabled to allow talking to older SMB devices, most Linux-based but will never see a kernel update to enable SMB2 - Been SMB3 since Kernel 3.12.
support for a device connected via a USB-to-Ethernet bridge - Connected to a switch I'm working on like that right now.
In fact, running both Linux and Windows on the desktop I've found that most stuff will work in either quite happily, and the stuff that doesn't (like some fingerprint readers) is being ported as Lenovo and Dell sell more Linux based laptops.
There's plenty to like and dislike between the two, but the argument that Linux is just for servers has not been true for many years, and let's face it, there's a a good probability that Windows is going to become just another desktop manager running on a Linux Kernel like KDE or Gnome in the next decade! :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
