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>there is, the XPS has the best Linux support on a high end laptop, maybe ever. That's hyperbole if I've ever seen it. You can look at how many problems plague
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
>there is, the XPS has the best Linux support on a high end laptop, maybe ever.
That's hyperbole if I've ever seen it. You can look at how many problems plagued Fedora on the XPS13 as recently as a year ago:
https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2015-model/ https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...
The tl;dr version is that the guy spent so long trying to get it working properly that he ditched the laptop for a Thinkpad. And FWIW, Fedora usually has better support for recent hardware than other distros due to the up-to-date kernel.
From what I gather, Thinkpads are the crown jewel of Linux-supported laptops. This is more of a dogfooding thing than anything else: kernel developers, Redhat employees, and other Linux users tend to use Thinkpads, which means they then spend more time getting support for Thinkpads into the kernel.
- haspok 10y agoThat was 2 years ago actually. The community sorted out most of the issues, so about 6 months later the experience was actually quite good. Dell released the Linux version of the laptop too early, I guess they wanted to get some traction but it backfired.
- nopcode 10y ago>6 months later Who thinks this is acceptable though?