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I share your pain! I have a Dell XPS15 (i7 4K 9550) at work and Macs (rMBP and iMac) at home. Me too I was hoping to finally get a PC that was of similar qualit
by m_st 9y ago
I share your pain! I have a Dell XPS15 (i7 4K 9550) at work and Macs (rMBP and iMac) at home. Me too I was hoping to finally get a PC that was of similar quality, given that it is just as expensive as the rMBP. But boy was I wrong!
Of course I did a clean install with just the drivers. But even like that, when it was new, I got 1 BSOD for every piece of software I installed. No joke. Even now, after almost 2 years and countless firmware and driver updates it has occasional hangs and issues. And no, you can't use the webcam as it just films your chest. And no, you can't use the microphone as it is in front of the track pad so your partner can barely hear you.
I'm using it mostly for Visual Studio. And though I still consider it the best IDE, it gets slower and crashes more with every new version since maybe VS 2010.
I'll stick to Macs at home. Thanks.
- pnutjam 9y agoI'm running OpenSUSE on my Dell, IMHO, it has better hardware support then Ubuntu. Visual Studio is available on linux: https://code.visualstudio.com/download https://code.visualstudio.com/download
- AlexeyBrin 9y agoVisual Studio and Visual Studio Code are two different products.
- lou1306 9y agoVisual Studio for Mac also exists, but it is another different product (basically a rebranded MonoDevelop with some additional features)
- dagaci 9y agoLol! I suspect something's wrong with your machine, if your regularly get BSOD from a new machine: replace it.