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Was actually also debating recently between the thinkpad and the dell - ended up based on cost with the XPS 15 - any other general tips or big gotchas running l
by Melatonic 4y ago
Was actually also debating recently between the thinkpad and the dell - ended up based on cost with the XPS 15 - any other general tips or big gotchas running linux on it?
- 0x457 4y agoNot really, everything[1] works out of the box on new distros. I had to switch NixOS to Fedora, so I can run daemons required for compliance - at the time of F34 (or was it F35?) release thing worked well. Sometimes you need to enable legacy/linux ACPI state in BIOS. I think it maps S0ix to S3 or something like that. There is (was?) an issue with suspend on some intels and I had to tweak the behavior otherwise the laptop would keep going after you close the lid. I think both are solid laptops for linux. [1]: Everything I used and tried