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I don't want to be the guy who just complains about everything and provides no solution, but eOS is, at the end of the day, just Ubuntu, which is just Linux. I

I don't want to be the guy who just complains about everything and provides no solution, but eOS is, at the end of the day, just Ubuntu, which is just Linux. I recently installed eOS because I was excited about the following things: paid app stores, a simpler and more intuitive UI, and a resource-light desktop. Target machine was a Dell XPS laptop with 8GB RAM and a previous gen i5 - outdated but far from 'old'. Sleep and hibernate did not work because the installer did not add a swap partition. It took me forever to connect my Bluetooth headphones and the sound quality was really flakey. The touchscreen didn't work well and didn't support gestures or scrolling. Battery life was horrible compared to Win 10 or even Ubuntu. The native apps like Mail looked good but would often freeze or crash (esp when searching). Without a focus on fundamental stability, there's no way for me to appreciate the UI or the paid apps. I went back to Kubuntu.

ac29 6y ago
Sleep doesn't require a swap partition (or even swap at all). The memory stays powered on during sleep. Sounds like it was broken for some other reason, which is somewhat surprising since XPS laptops are supported well by Linux in my experience.
- subjectsigma 6y ago
  I also remembered: fingerprint reader doesn't work any Linux. Given that list of issues I'm surprised you consider them 'well supported'. Do you have a newer model and how is your experience? I would consider buying another XPS in the future if it had better Linux compatibility.
  - ac29 6y ago
    I have a ~2 year old XPS13 thats been pretty flawless, though it was bought as a "Developer Edition" that shipped with Linux (which was replaced with a different distro on day 1). Not sure how much those differ in hardware, but it seemed more or less identical to the Windows versions at the time.
    - subjectsigma 6y ago
      Ok, thanks for the input!

ac29 6y ago

Sleep doesn't require a swap partition (or even swap at all). The memory stays powered on during sleep. Sounds like it was broken for some other reason, which is somewhat surprising since XPS laptops are supported well by Linux in my experience.

subjectsigma 6y ago
I also remembered: fingerprint reader doesn't work any Linux. Given that list of issues I'm surprised you consider them 'well supported'. Do you have a newer model and how is your experience? I would consider buying another XPS in the future if it had better Linux compatibility.
- ac29 6y ago
  I have a ~2 year old XPS13 thats been pretty flawless, though it was bought as a "Developer Edition" that shipped with Linux (which was replaced with a different distro on day 1). Not sure how much those differ in hardware, but it seemed more or less identical to the Windows versions at the time.
  - subjectsigma 6y ago
    Ok, thanks for the input!