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There are very few times i will come out with something positive to say about a company, but i do have to say i have a Dell laptop from 2020, and to this day i get regular firmware updates via the gnome application storefront's update utility from Dell. It is an enterprise machine that was originally sold with Ubuntu as an option which i believe is why. I don't run Ubuntu but they just push the updates out to all linux distros that check for them i think. It's really nice to have i just download it, reboot, and it installs the update in a few seconds. I even get to look at my pretty plymouth splash screen while it installs. So hopefully I'll have the new key from that.