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Please do try Fedora. You will find that the level of polish in Fedora today far exceeds that in Ubuntu. At some level, you feel the systemd, Gnome, Wayland in

Please do try Fedora. You will find that the level of polish in Fedora today far exceeds that in Ubuntu. At some level, you feel the systemd, Gnome, Wayland integration as something force fed to Ubuntu.

antongribok 9y ago
Came here to say exactly the same thing. Been running XPS 13 DE with Fedora for the past year and it's been flawless. Battery life with the FHD screen is amazing, I can work two 7-8 hour work days on a single charge. At idle I'll get over 22 hours. The updates for OS and BIOS are more polished than Windows or Mac.
gkya 9y ago
With Fedora the boot process has always been a pain for me. Every time I installed it after a couple reboots it begins to hang at the Plymouth screen indefinitely. I've tried up until Fedora 26.
FLUX-YOU 9y ago
>Please do try Fedora. You will find that the level of polish in Fedora today far exceeds that in Ubuntu. Fedora's a bit wonky with some Asus laptops though. If Fedora is flawless with an XPS 13, I'd probably buy that. - iio-sensor-proxy has a 90 degree offset by default, meaning that the display is rotated to portrait mode when the laptop is flat. This was the biggest problem IMO, but locking the rotation once fixes it for subsequent boots. Rotating the laptop to portrait puts the display in landscape mode, so iio-sensor-proxy is either reversing the orientation from the sensor or the sensor is reversed. - There are wifi errors in the log when shutting down. Something about key removal, but has no impact when using - Really odd ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@... pattern also when shutting down - Boot takes 3-5 minutes with full disk encryption, but I have a mechanical drive - dmesg had some other strange things in it, but I remember thinking "Is there any platform where boot results in no error messages? That would be nice". I'm sure Windows has similar things.
- sandGorgon 9y ago
  I have a XPS 13. Fedora was the only distribution that installed with nvme disks. Super happy with it.
  - mkesper 9y ago
    Debian 9 also installs without problems on NVMe.
- JdeBP 9y ago
  * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396192/ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396192/ * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/
reacharavindh 9y ago
+1 to the latest fedora on Dell XPS 13. I use a Mac for work(paid for my employer) and my Dell for my side projects and side businesses. I bought my Skylake Dell XPS 13 on a crazy deal, and swapped a intel wifi card for the default broadcom card that came with it, and everything is super smooth with Fedora+GNOME3+Wayland. Basic desktop just works. I do hate that I cant get fractional scaling (yet) with GNOME. Other than that, things are how you expect them to be.

antongribok 9y ago

Came here to say exactly the same thing. Been running XPS 13 DE with Fedora for the past year and it's been flawless. Battery life with the FHD screen is amazing, I can work two 7-8 hour work days on a single charge. At idle I'll get over 22 hours. The updates for OS and BIOS are more polished than Windows or Mac.

gkya 9y ago

With Fedora the boot process has always been a pain for me. Every time I installed it after a couple reboots it begins to hang at the Plymouth screen indefinitely. I've tried up until Fedora 26.

FLUX-YOU 9y ago

>Please do try Fedora. You will find that the level of polish in Fedora today far exceeds that in Ubuntu. Fedora's a bit wonky with some Asus laptops though. If Fedora is flawless with an XPS 13, I'd probably buy that. - iio-sensor-proxy has a 90 degree offset by default, meaning that the display is rotated to portrait mode when the laptop is flat. This was the biggest problem IMO, but locking the rotation once fixes it for subsequent boots. Rotating the laptop to portrait puts the display in landscape mode, so iio-sensor-proxy is either reversing the orientation from the sensor or the sensor is reversed. - There are wifi errors in the log when shutting down. Something about key removal, but has no impact when using - Really odd ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@... pattern also when shutting down - Boot takes 3-5 minutes with full disk encryption, but I have a mechanical drive - dmesg had some other strange things in it, but I remember thinking "Is there any platform where boot results in no error messages? That would be nice". I'm sure Windows has similar things.

sandGorgon 9y ago
I have a XPS 13. Fedora was the only distribution that installed with nvme disks. Super happy with it.
- mkesper 9y ago
  Debian 9 also installs without problems on NVMe.
JdeBP 9y ago
* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396192/ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396192/ * https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360830/

reacharavindh 9y ago

+1 to the latest fedora on Dell XPS 13. I use a Mac for work(paid for my employer) and my Dell for my side projects and side businesses. I bought my Skylake Dell XPS 13 on a crazy deal, and swapped a intel wifi card for the default broadcom card that came with it, and everything is super smooth with Fedora+GNOME3+Wayland. Basic desktop just works. I do hate that I cant get fractional scaling (yet) with GNOME. Other than that, things are how you expect them to be.