XPS 13

Battery life is mostly a platform property. You need to get all your ducks in a row from the low-level hardware all the way to applications. Hardware design choices by the manufacturer matter, and firmware is important too. In the end, with some laptops you get awesome power efficiency under Linux o

If the underlying Intel platform is supported, the probability of being able to boot the kernel and having CPU, GPU and ACPI support is essentially 100% on x86-64, because so much of it is just "the BIOS already knows where all the hardware is, so hey kernel, here you go". The annoying parts are usu

That's a huge change because it provides manufacturers with a framework they had to come up with on their own so far. This was already provided by fwupd, which is used by system update applications (e.g. GNOME Software or KDE's Discover). Some manufacturers already support it. For instance I have a

I personally question how much software optimisation can be done to be honest. One of the biggest resource hogs on my machine right now is hilariously Spotify, at a whopping 1.8G of RAM split over 9 processes. Then I've got Discord with 8 processes at 1.7GB. That's 3.5G, or nearly half the RAM gone

I bought my X1 Carbon Gen 10 in 2023 not because it's the fastest. I travel a lot usually backpacking for months at a time and weight is a very important consideration. It's also sturdy and well built. Good battery life on Linux. At the time my top contenders were X1 or Dell XPS 13. Having Linux ins

Definitely a win11 problem, switching my aging Dell XPS 13 9310 over to Fedora Linux made it snappy again and breathed some life back into it. The problem is likely their recent push to virtualization based security and copilot, both of which are pretty resource hungry and can slow down the operatin

I am Tony Stark. btw, its dual boot Dell XPS 13 9310. I use Linux mostly for school work. Gaming is lowky bad.

I have 2 of these XPS 13 9310s. They both came with Ubuntu preinstalled. I have never had a problem with either of them. Ubuntu has been gone for a long time. I run Arch/hyprland on one and Debian Sid with Gnome on the other. I think these are the best Linux laptops.

You're probably right that it being the work provided laptop makes the comparison complicated. But my bare minimum expectation is to not find my laptop dead in my backpack after putting it in sleep. I briefly tried a Lunar Lake powered Dell XPS 13 and compared the app launch times and excel performa

Years ago the XPS 13 developer edition had the fingerprint reader replaced with a simple power button as the fprint reader lacked firmware support on Linux. But since 2020 even that difference is gone. Should be the same hardware AFAIK. Certainly makes sense for Dell to use the same hardware and jus