Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off

Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by haspok on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:43AM (#15711388)

Do you have a Dell XPS 13 (any version)? Because I do (a 9343), and I don't have any of the problems you listed above - in fact, I spend far less time managing my laptop since I switched to Ubuntu. I started off with 14.04 then switched to 16.04 and I upgraded to an 4.9 LTS kernel in January. That's about it.

I have no issues with battery life, wifi, or BT or anything else. The first ~6 months of 2014 was a rough ride, because the hardware was so new there was no proper support for it in the kernel, but the team @ Dell managed to upstream all the required stuff, so depending on their custom Ubuntu release is no longer necessary. Everything should just work out of the box.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by alphadevx on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:58AM (#15711457)

Same for me: Dell XPS 13 user, Fedora user, it all "just works" including after a recent Fedora 27 upgrade, although in fairness I did have to replace the Broadcom wi-fi card with an Intel one, due to Intel having far superior Linux drivers: http://www.alphadevx.com/a/510-Replacing-a-Broadcom-wireless...

Once I done that, I now have the perfect developer laptop (in my opinion of course :-) )

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