I'm running Arch on my Pixel 2015 LS. Regarding HiDPI: Gnome 3 and Cinnamon both work very well. I don't use many apps besides gnome-terminal, chrome, virtualb

I'm running Arch on my Pixel 2015 LS. Regarding HiDPI: Gnome 3 and Cinnamon both work very well. I don't use many apps besides gnome-terminal, chrome, virtualbox, emacs, skype, and banshee. Except for Skype and Emacs, all of those worked with HiDPI out of the box. For Emacs, I just increased my font size. The skype buddy list is really small. I haven't investigated really changing it because I use it infrequently and it is still legible. There has been huge variance in the build quality of the 2015 Pixels. I've had several RMA'd due to squirrelly disk controllers/flash devices failing (and disappearing from dmesg). There are common reports on the Google+ group of the keyboard rattling as well. They are really nice machines when they work. The keyboard is great. The trackpad is great. The screen is gorgeous. The camera is good. Speakers are loud. Microphones are clear. The expansion is decent with 2 USB 3.1 Type C and 2 USB 3 Type A and an SD reader (unfortunate that the SD reader is USB2 and not USB3, due to all of the USB3 ports being exposed externally). The disk is undersized at 64GB, but acceptable for me to allow mobile development (This isn't a docker-friendly machine if that's your thing).