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Starlabs; good support long term? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone here use Starlabs computers? I'm thinking of buying one of their laptops and I'm interested in how well their products are supported in the long term. Specifically, firmware updates and spare parts & repairs.

Thanks

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[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Big brands have the money to provide longer support, but not the inclination lol.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is sometimes true, but big brands have the market penetration to make hardware support very easy through second hand and third party parts and to be enticing fruit for third party support (see opencore and the dosdude patchers for apple stuff).