XPS 15 9530

It is not so much an issue now, but there was a time when driver compatibility was an issue on Linux. Nah m8, it’s still pretty bad. A Brazilian kid was reverse engineering the thinkpad sound chip on the Fedora discord because apparently Lenovo somehow messed up the kernel patches and the sound was

My daily use laptop is a Dell XPS 15 7590. Bought it in 2021 and barely used it for years until I got a job that required a laptop. Popped some fresh 16gb (32 total) sticks of ram, a 1tb ssd with a fresh custom windows 11 install. Besides the screen, it’s just as good as any modern laptop under $150

Yeah TBH the victim complex thing is a turn-off. Like we have two brands with solid Panther Lake offerings that check a lot of checkboxes. Framework is ready for Linux out of the box but Dell seems to be mildly committed there too. I don’t see anything wrong with marketing being like ‘hey while you

I have MST working correctly. XPS 15 9530 -> USB C -> Dell u2520d -> Display Port -> Dell u2520d. One cable, two monitors. Suspend / resume works perfectly. Kernel 6.11, Nvidia 550. This is the most recent combo I've found that works.

At that price, even in the US where things are cheaper that seems like a pretty good deal. I have owned two of the Precision 5570 (one is now my daughter's machine, and I picked up a used one this summer as a spare for my 5680) and have been very pleased with them. That's the Precision version of th

I currently have a dell xps 15 9530 bought in 2023. It's runing linux mint for the most part really well. Mine has an Nvidia RTX 4050 and though I need to modify it a little bit, it's still reading the driver, albeit not as well as I'd hope. then again, I'm a complete noob at linux and literally jus

Buy a used Dell xps for 300€. Clean it and use linux on it. You will have a highend experience