I had been using a ThinkPad Carbon X1 Yoga, but recently switched to a Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 because I wanted the extra screen space. (2-in-1s work in tent mo

I had been using a ThinkPad Carbon X1 Yoga, but recently switched to a Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 because I wanted the extra screen space. (2-in-1s work in tent mode, which is great when I'm using a mech keyboard and trackball). I tend not to roll my own Linux on a laptop, because of the weird custom components, so Ubuntu is the easiest course. It has worked quite well, though I haven't bothered to try the fingerprint reader. The machine does firmware updates flawlessly, and suspends and wakes reliably (my window manager is i3, and I just use the provided xss-lock/i3lock mechanism). Annoyances? This machine has a high-res 3840x2160 monitor, and you have to struggle to tell various applications to scale output. The nvidia GPU in this model means that I had to roll back from sway to i3, as sway “does not support” nvidia.The autorotate feature doesn't work out of the box, but a small bash script does the job. Dell does have some support pages for Ubuntu, but I'd say their Linux support is perhaps not quite as solid as Lenovo's. I'll repeat a few pieces of advice: (1) use a distro that has all the drivers, including the nonfree ones, (2) be prepared to do web searches to solve arcane problems, and (3) expect to have odd little glitches in various apps, at least until you solve them. That said, I'm very happy with Linux on this machine.