ThinkPads use devices for which there are open source devices for everything, as far as I know. Still, hardware support in the BSDs lags Linux to varying degrees, because of slower hardware. (My 2015 E550, for example, still lacked full video support in FreeBSD RELEASE, last time I looked.
In my experience, hardware support is actually better in OpenBSD than FreeBSD. Jeff Sent from Blue On 26 Jun 2018, 09:07, at 09:07, Marco van Hulten <marco.hul...@uib.no> wrote: >Robert, > >On 25 Jun 22:01 Robert Gilaard wrote: >> I am just researching this as well and have settled on the Dell >> laptops because they come pre-configured with Ubuntu and therefore I >> assume they will be opensource friendly. > >It could be fine, but I would not just assume this. The pre-configured >Ubuntu may contain proprietary drivers, which you may not want to use, >and are not included in OpenBSD. > >> I have short listed:1. Dell >> Precision 7520 ($1502)2. Dell Precision 7720 ($1412)3. Dell Precision >> 3520 ($1352) Prices are based on my hardware choices so ymmv. > >I have a Dell Latitude E7470, which had serveral power management >related issues in spring last year (e.g. hanging when waking up from >suspend). The worst of these issues disappeared because OpenBSD and >Ubuntu (also installed as it is officially provided by my employer) got >support for the hardware over the summer of 2017. There is still the >issue of an OpenBSD segfault when I attach/detach the laptop to/from my >docking station. > >In retrospect, I wish I took the similarly spec'ed Lenovo Thinkpad that >my employer also offered, because Thinkpads are said to be "opensource >friendly" (but that may be just as well be wishful thinking). > >Marco
