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I'm a mercenary systems administrator located in Columbia, SC. My first real hands-on experience with open source software was running Apache on FreeBSD webservers in the late 90s and early 2000s. Since then, I moved on to Samba, BIND, qmail, postfix, and anything and everything else that grabbed my attention. I currently support Windows, FreeBSD, Debian, and Ubuntu workstations and servers doing just about everything that you can possibly do with any or all of them. RAH said it best - specialization is for insects!
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Should be fine, on the System76 at least - I'd be a bit more nervous about the dell. You might have trouble getting the function keys mapped to brightness and volume controls and what not, but the laptop itself will work just fine.
It's a "GAEMS M155" (that's not a typo). It's sold as a gaming gadget, not a system administration tool; but I bought it to (and use it to) connect to arbitrary normally-headless machines in server closets.
It's powered from a single USB which can be plugged directly into a computer's USB port, and gets its video over HDMI. Works really well, very thin and lightweight. Basically, if you've ever wished you could just plug video IN into a laptop and use it as a monitor, this is that thing, except much lighter and cheaper than a laptop.