My company (British) runs Ubuntu and MacOS. On the Ubuntu front, we mostly use Dell XPS 13s (9360s), which are okay, except the trackpad is quite poor - many us

My company (British) runs Ubuntu and MacOS. On the Ubuntu front, we mostly use Dell XPS 13s (9360s), which are okay, except the trackpad is quite poor - many use external mice even in meeting rooms. We've tried dropping X11 configs in to improve it, but the results are very mixed. I personally am not that impressed by the keyboard or the webcam location choice. On the positives, the performance is good, and they're very light yet sturdy. The other machines we have are Dell Precision M3520s - I found one unclaimed and swapped my XPS for it, and have found it to be great. Again, all the hardware works out of the box. The keyboard and trackpad are both much better than the XPS, and the 1920x1080 15" screen is crisp and sharp. It's a bit of a brick, especially compared to our MBPs, but it has a healthy complement of ports. I run a 4k 32" external screen via Thunderbolt/USB-C, while also having USB-As and onboard ethernet. Disk speeds are awesome, and it has nVidia hybrid graphics should I need them (although I keep them disabled and use the Intel onboard during the day). Battery life varies considerably since it packs a quad-i7 (7820HQ) but a full workday is probably practical. The RAM and SSD are also upgradeable. I would definitely look at the Precision series over the XPS.