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I'll be getting a new laptop soon and am interested in the XPS 13. 1. Is the only difference in the Developer edition that Ubuntu is install by default, and dr

I'll be getting a new laptop soon and am interested in the XPS 13. 1. Is the only difference in the Developer edition that Ubuntu is install by default, and drivers are made to work with it? Otherwise the build is exactly the same? (The New XPS has a matte screen which I would like.) 2. I don't particularly trust an operating system that ships with a computer. I assume if I wipe it and install Ubuntu from scratch it'll still work the same as intended? 3. Will the price be lower due to no Windows license? 4. Do you have a ballpark figure of when it'll be out? Thanks.

nfoz 12y ago
Afaict it's not yet known if there will be any hardware differences between the Windows and Ubuntu models. Yes, of course you can wipe the OS in either case. Dell's Linux extensions are open-source as far as I know, e.g. their touchpad improvements that they're working on. But you might have to build your own kernel in order to compile those drivers yourself, or perhaps wait a long time before they're mainlined. This is conjecture based on my understanding. I'd look around the Dell-Linux forums/blogs, the dev team is pretty open about discussing this stuff.
tormeh 12y ago
In the linked article the M3800 is a hundred dollars cheaper with Ubuntu.