Maybe in misunderstanding, but that story seems to be about Dolby going after AV1, not the other way around.

Article is dated 10th July 2025. Why was this posted now?

While it wasn’t a requirement, be aware that Vagrant (along with all Hashicorp products) are no longer free software and are instead under the Business Software Licence.

Live, Laugh, Linux

You can relatively easily set up a self-hosted OIDC sever like like Keycloak or Kanidm.

Dell have at times sold laptops with Linux pre installed.