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I purchased an XPS 13 in December last year. More specifically I have the 2016 - 9360 model. The laptop came with Windows 10 preinstalled (Dell did not offer L
by bigger_cheese 10y ago
I purchased an XPS 13 in December last year. More specifically I have the 2016 - 9360 model.
The laptop came with Windows 10 preinstalled (Dell did not offer Linux preinstalled in Australia).
I installed Fedora 25 on it. I hit a major issues with the Linux installer failing to recognize the Laptop's built in SSD. I was able to fix this by entering the BIOS and changing the SATA controller to AHCI mode and disabling Secure boot (apparently intel is to blame because bios default SATA "RAID mode" only works under Windows). After I made bios changes Windows partition would no longer boot (not a huge deal for me as I nuked this partition during Linux install).
The first time I closed the lid it failed to wake from suspend and I had to power cycle it. However since then I've updated the system packages quite a few times and it has successfully woken each time I have closed the lid subsequently. So suspect newer kernel fixed this.
For dual monitor support I haven't noticed any issues. But rarely run with an external monitor attached. WiFi worked out of the box. Never used bluetooth on it.
Trackpad is probably biggest issue it feels very poor to use and often does not register clicks. When I mentioned this on LWN some people mentioned changing from synaptics driver to using libinput driver for touchpad - for time being though I have been using an external mouse.
Overall I'm mostly satisfied. For hardware as new as what I purchased everything has worked remarkably well.