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I'd love to hear how this laptop runs Ubuntu or Mint.
by bdwalter 10y ago
I'd love to hear how this laptop runs Ubuntu or Mint.
- caleblloyd 10y agoOne of my co-workers has the current gen (9550) and Ubuntu 16.04 runs great on it. I think he's got an intel wifi card, I'd just check Linux compatibility with the Killer wifi card before going that route. It's easy enough to change a WiFi card out aftermarket if there is issues though, an Intel 8260 card will run you $30.
- bdwalter 10y agoDoes that include good working power management and a fully functioning touchpad? I went down the XPS13 Sputnik path and had endless disappointment with constant fixes.
- aoloe 10y agoI have bought an XPS13 Sputnik this spring, have put Debian Testing on it, and had no single issue related to the the machine itself. At least, I think so... And, well, I'm not too picky...
- caleblloyd 10y agoI think that Skylake Power Management got better in the Kernel after the original XPS13 Sputnik launch, but yes the XPS13 touchpad was a pain in the ass. The XPS15 touchpad on Linux is better than the XPS13. My biggest complaint about the XPS15 I had a little over a year ago was the spacebar. There was a manufacturing defect in mine where the touchpad ribbon cable pressed up against the spacebar and was causing unregistered keystrokes. I read internet forums where multiple people had this issue. Maybe Dell has fixed the manufacturing issue by now, but it was bad enough that I returned the XPS15.
- drewg123 10y agoIs it really that easy to swap them out? Or does Dell lock-out non-whitelisted wifi in the BIOS like Lenovo does with thinkpads?
- caleblloyd 10y agoI swapped out the Dell Wireless (Broadcom) on an XPS 13 9350 for an Intel 8260 with no issues. I would assume the XPS 15 would be the same.
- DocG 10y agoSwapped wifi on XPS 15 to intel one. Mine was one that came with dell original wifi, working perfectly.
- moosingin3space 10y agoKiller WiFi should work with the `ath10k` driver in recent kernels.
- witty_username 10y agoThere are USB WiFi dongles for 2$; I use one of those with the R8188EU chip.
- yla92 10y agoI am also on 9550 with Ubuntu 16.04. I upgraded RAM to 32GB. I mostly do Android development (gradle and Android Studio eat a huge amount of memory). I've run into a few weird issues with different version of Linux kernel. Some kernel version caused no sound at all. This is such a common topics among Ubuntu users and there are so many solutions about that. I've tried most of them (solutions around alsamixer and pulseaudio) only using certain version of kernel works for me. I am curious which linux kernel version people (and your co-worker) are using though.
- mSparks 10y agodell "developer" releases come with linux preinstalled. so almost certainly. although i wouldnt touch ubuntu with a barge pole. e.g. http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu/pd http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop-ubuntu/...
- partisan 10y ago> i wouldnt touch ubuntu with a barge pole Just curious what makes you say that?
- m_mueller 10y agoNot P but just ab example: Sublime Text won't even show menus in unity without some extension hackery. Who thought this titlebar would be a good idea? People with an 11 inch laptop? Is that the target audience now?
- sliken 10y agoThe global menu bar is trivial to turn off (without any hackery) in the current ubuntu.
- 0wl3x 10y agoI really like using Ubuntu but I don't like Unity. My solution? Run Awesome WM instead :)
- reitanqild 10y agoSame here, except KDE 5, nicely wrapped up in the Neon distro by the KDE people.
- 0wl3x 10y agoWow that's really cool. I didn't know about this project before. Thanks for the headsup!
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- brightball 10y agoMy first thought. This looks like it might be my future Linux laptop that I've been researching for about a year.
- talideon 10y agoIt's essentially a Precision 5510, which is what I have. I have no complaints about mine at all: Ubuntu 16.04.1 works perfectly.