I'm going with this Dell and returning my Lenovo Slim 7 Pro. In my previous thread saying I switched to Windows I read that Dells offer great compatibility. I ordered this Dell XPS 13 and plan on going with Pop OS. Thoughts on this? Good choice?

Edit: Apparently it's certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I assume I should go with This particular Ubuntu version then?

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, why not go for something that supports Linux out of the box? Why stock to mainstream?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Dell supports pre-installed Ubuntu on the XPS Plus configuration. You can order it with Ubuntu installed out of their webshop. They also have repos for all the drivers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Ubuntu LTS in general ships with very out-dated software. Many software are lacking in many useful features.

    Although most of this can be mitigated with virtual environment of your programming language of choice, or flatpak/snap/appimage. There are several, like libreoffice, latex, and DE, are not so easy to fix.

    I am not convinced LTS is a good environment for most users.

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