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    @HiddenLayer5 OK thanks for the names. What is hardware video decoding support in Linux like for these machines? I had read somewhere that hw decoding support of most Intel chips was pretty good

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      Intel integrated GPUs are supported by Linux mainline drivers as far as I know, so it should work out of the box. H.264 encoding should also work by default too, though with anything Linux your mileage may vary and depends on what software you use.

      Both Dell and Lenovo are great about supporting Linux on their professional machines so it should be fine. I’ve personally never run into windows-only driver BS on either.