3 ms·
Why didn't you buy the developer edition?
by passiveincomelg 10y ago
Why didn't you buy the developer edition?
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoBecause I saw someone selling a barely-used i7/8GB/512gb SSD of the non-dev edition on Craigslist for $800. Similar specs new would've been around the $2k mark. Additionally, I was fine running Windows 10 at first and doing all my dev work in a Fedora VM, but the Anniversary Update has pissed me off considerably, leading me to want to migrate to a bare-metal Linux installation.
- passiveincomelg 10y agoOh yeah that's a great deal. :)
- mwcampbell 10y agoJust curious, what pissed you off about the Windows 10 Anniversary Update? That update hasn't made it to my PC just yet.
- naibafo 10y agoI think what pissed of many users was that the update messes with your settings once again, and that Cortana cannot be disabled anymore without messing around in the registry. Another point was that they forgot to turn off some debugging option they had presumably activated for their developers which opened up a big vulnerability.
- izacus 10y agoI tried buying it here in EU and the local Dell distributor flatly told me that they can't procure it at all. Figure that O.o
- talideon 10y agoI got one of the original XPS 13 DEs, and a friend of mine had no issues picking up the latest revision recently enough. If you want something a bit bigger, but that just works, the E5510 is excellent, especially once you have Ubuntu 16.04.1 (or a distro with the 4.4.0 kernel) on it.
- smoe 10y agoI bought the windows version, because the hw specs I wanted weren't available for the developer editions. Luckily the archlinux wiki page for the del xps 13 (2015) made me aware of the issue with Broadcom wifi, so I picked one with an Intel. No real problems so far, except the ones that were caused by me because it was the first time I've ever set up a linux on a laptop.