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Why do you need to buy a developer edition machine? I bought my last two XPS13s in UK and Netherlands, negotiated the best specs/price/availability tradeoff vi
by stevesimmons 5y ago
Why do you need to buy a developer edition machine?
I bought my last two XPS13s in UK and Netherlands, negotiated the best specs/price/availability tradeoff via phone and webchat, and then ditched Windows in favour of Ubuntu 21.04.
Very easy. Great machines.
My only complaint is the single USB-C power/monitor cable display detection got less reliable when I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04. Haven't had time to follow it up.
- CogitoCogito 5y agoAre you guaranteed that an XPS 13 that comes with Windows has the same chipset as one that has guaranteed Linux support? I recently got an X1 Carbon only to find out that they sell slightly different versions simultaneously. Mine came with Windows and when I tried to install Linux, I found out that the WiFi chip was new and didn’t actually have a mainline driver. As it turned out there was an experimental driver that did work (which required compiling a specific custom kernel), but it took a day or two to sort that out. This wouldn’t have been an issue had I got the version officially supporting Linux. Anyway not sure if the same problem could affect an XPS 13, but it is something to consider. Had I got mine 6 months earlier I wouldn’t even have had an experimental driver to work with. Edit: I see this was brought up here already so it seems like you’d probably be okay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880558