XPS 13

You said a lot, and I didn't read ALL of it, but what I read I agree with 100%. I've used linux since 96 and recently I've moved everything to Wayland because plasma was removing support for X11 and also Wayland just works better for arm SBC framebuffer devices in many cases. I use my work computer

Let's also not forget the first 7 years of the XPS 13, it had that ridiculous webcam around the bottom of the screen pointing upwards like a nostril cam.

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

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

Our 1000 Dell XPS 13 + with their failure rate of 14% in the first 3 months and a further 6% in the next 9 months begs to differ. We literally had a Dell tech in our office more than our actual IT staff. Just a total poo storm. Dell offered us a partial refund to try and keep our business going forw

At least we now know how bad things have been at XPS department to come out with the last iteration of XPS 13... They replaced the top keyboard row with a touchpad, Non-mechanical keys for Esc and Delete and F row. This was non-starters for anyone that actually uses their computer for work. So what

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

Given that the FW13 has 4 flexible ports (and FW16 even 6) I don't see much point. USB-A is becoming obsolete. A lot of peripherals are Bluetooth connected anyway. I was mostly fine with the just 2 USB-C ports of a XPS-13 before. The 4 interchangeable ones in FW13 are already luxury. Especially as I

Happened to me last month, but this time it was a dell xps 13 user, they only had 2x USB C ports

The Dell XPS13 was the best implementation of the "small light but not shit" laptop. Always interesting to see what uni students buy: it's their own money, they want to take it everywhere, and they want four years service with no drama. XPS13 was the #1 choice. Now it's MacBook Air M-series.