Cosmic Alpha Released

Re:Cosmic Alpha Released by chrsw on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:32AM (#41379957)

I have a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition from work that came with Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled. Basically a flawless experience. I've posted about it on here before, I guess the Windows SKUs are slightly different? People reported different results when installing Linux themselves on top of machines that shipped with Windows.

I have a ThinkPad 25 for personal use with Debian and that's great too. For machines that I use routinely I don't have time for any issues.

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Re:Cosmic Alpha Released by colordrops on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:38PM (#41386004)

I have an old XPS from 7 years ago. Battery had to be replaced 4 times, and the build quality is shit. It also overheats and throttles really easily. Has that changed with newer models?

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Re:Cosmic Alpha Released by chrsw on Saturday August 31, 2024 @07:03AM (#41407932)

I have an XPS 13 9310. I think the build quality is fine. The battery has never been replaced but it might be time:

  $ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 | grep energy-full
    energy-full:         33.5388 Wh
    energy-full-design:  50.9732 Wh

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