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I'm not sure I'd call the XPS 13 the best PC laptop. The keyboard is pretty terrible, and the touchpad is so wide that my palms will rest on it and cause the cu
by castratikron 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd call the XPS 13 the best PC laptop. The keyboard is pretty terrible, and the touchpad is so wide that my palms will rest on it and cause the cursor to move around while I'm typing. There's also some bounce on the spacebar which results in sometimes registering double spaces (the latest BIOS alleviates the problem, but not completely).
The DPI of the screen is really high and doesn't scale well under XFCE, but I'm not sure if that's really a fault of the laptop.
- wbkang 11y agoYeah. DPI story on Linux desktops are not very good. A few of them handles 200% scaling pretty well, but with something like 150% scaling, it fails pretty terribly. I had some success modifying things like border width, font sizes manually.
- corybrown 11y agoIt's astounding how poorly most Linux distributions deal with these screens. They've been available for years.
- snerbles 11y agoI currently run Debian Jessie on an XPS 13 - GNOME 3 handles high DPI with minimal configuration. I'm sure KDE could manage as well, but I did not have a magnifying glass available to navigate the miniscule menus. I've run into more issues with apps that don't scale - some games and the Arduino IDE being the biggest offenders I've come across. I agree with regard to the touchpad size/palm sensitivity - accidental clicks are a big problem.
- szatkus 11y agoYou can disable "click on tap" in Gnome settings. For me it's much better this way.
- szatkus 11y agoFor me the main issue with XPS touchpad is lack of physical buttons. With Vostro I was able to press left and right button simultaneously (middle click on Linux), now with XPS it's impossible. Also sound is annoying :)