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		slacktide on July 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Return of the Mac (2005) Pretty close. They started offering Ubuntu preinstalls on 24 May 2007. https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/blog/15994-2/

onethought on July 5, 2021 [–]

So that period of Unix based Mac started around 2002ish (maybe earlier), and was as you say unchallenged until 2007 by dell. Then Ubuntu back then would still have problems with printers/external screens etc (Printers back then were more important than they are now too).

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