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Re:Ask HN: What should I buy? Macbook Air or Dell XPS 13? by shams93 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @02:52AM (#12329745)
Yeah these days if you want a linux laptop you're going to have a better experience either installing linux under bootcamp on a macbook, or getting a laptop with linux pre-installed, or getting a chromebook and running ubuntu under crouton. The dual boot days are basically over. If you have windows often its boot load locked into windows10. You can run bash ubuntu under windows 10 now, but you still have the overhead of running windows10 itself compared to the speed and efficiency of running a linux desktop like xfce.
Re:Ask HN: What should I buy? Macbook Air or Dell XPS 13? by llamaz on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:06AM (#12330074)
What? I'm dual booting ubuntu on a macbook air right now. It works perfectly, apart from the webcam

(well...until I upgraded to xenial and systemd. Now I'm using OS X. I'm not really helping my case here)

Re:Ask HN: What should I buy? Macbook Air or Dell XPS 13? by ckdarby on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:59AM (#12330059)
Highly recommend the Asus zenbook. Was able to run Ubuntu right out of the box with everything working aside from having to rebind the screen brightness keys.
Re:Ask HN: What should I buy? Macbook Air or Dell XPS 13? by TimothyE on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:15AM (#12330266)
+1 for the Zenbook. I've got a UX31A (which uses the same body as the Air) and I've been running Ubuntu pretty much stock for 3 years on it. Best ultra-portable I've had (had a couple of the older XPS 13's but not the newest)