Well yes. I did *ask* for it, but Dell for some reason still doesn't sell them in a whole heap of countries, so we simply chose a machine on which Ubuntu is sold pre-installed elsewhere, and installed it ourselves. I'd have chosen the version with Intel graphics (fully supported in free software), but that too isn't available here, so I have a fancy evil nvidia GPU, which luckily is documented to work fine with free-software drivers. And so it did, until I tried to resume after suspend-to-ram. No display.

How fortunate that Ubuntu makes it easy for me to "give up my freedom" and switch to the nasty source-free driver from the GPU maker. I intend to give some time to sorting out the suspend/resume problem with the nv developers (and/or the ubuntu xorg maintainers), but since it means a reboot every time it doesn't work, it will be a very time-consuming process and I couldn't use the machine for its intended purpose meanwhile. Which would annoy my employer, who paid for it.