Contributor enigma_0Z

Ubuntu needs to go green. Powertop, Lesswatts and other tools have finally hit the Linux scene to pave the way for better power management. It needs to be said, "if you want your battery to last longest, or have your energy bill be the lowest, you better use Ubuntu Linux."

Last year Dell began offering Ubuntu preinstalled on a few of their laptops. Dell seems to really be embracing its users lately, and Ubuntu's Brainstorm is a derivative of Dell's IdeaStorm.

I'd like to see a more complete line of Dell laptop and desktops supported in Ubuntu more fully. I personally use a Dell Inspiron 9300, and while most hardware works out of the box, there a few quirks. LED Bluetooth and WiFi, and strange ALSA mixing come to mind.

Perhaps Canonical and Dell can come to some sort of agreement in regards to laptop compatibility for those laptops still being used today (Mine was bought in July of 2005 and is still a great laptop).

With that said, IBM and Sony if I recall correctly have kernel modules for handling ACPI and BIOS quirks in their own way. There is currently no such easily accessible kernel module for Dell laptops, or HP laptops.

Most new computers bought today are laptops, so being able to fully support the hardware is greatly important. It might also be easier to implement some of the power-saving features described in other brainstorm ideas once the full capabilities of the hardware have been exposed to the operating system.