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no - this is very specific to lenovo. they enforce a whitelist of wifi and bluetooth cards to create a forced obsolescence event. usually this means they will
by sandGorgon 8y ago
no - this is very specific to lenovo. they enforce a whitelist of wifi and bluetooth cards to create a forced obsolescence event.
usually this means they will use cards that are not very common and popular. i still dont understand why they do this. That's pretty much the only reason why Dell XPS are now the cool developer laptop for Linux.
- robocat 8y agoDell XPS 15” has a crappy WiFi card and needs some magic setup incantations for Ubuntu (fortunately enough people have these laptops that the bash scripts are easy to find). The chipset to switch between the nvidia and intel video is still not stable AFAIK. Even worse, I asked about their business line of laptops that officially support Ubuntu, but they come installed with 16.04 and that is what is supported (as at November this year anyway).
- sandGorgon 8y agoI have run Fedora for the last 3 years on my XPS. I do hang out at /r/dell and /r/fedora and havent generally seen anyone having any issues. Fully out-of-the-box performance. I havent used Ubuntu for a long time, so im not sure what the issues are. But I like Fedora for their professional distros.