Well after spending all afternoon with this new Dell XPS 13 9315 I absolutely love it. The fit and finish feels exactly like a Macbook Air.

I have Linux installed (Pop_OS) and the only two issues I had were getting the webcam running and the fingerprint reader. I managed getting both of them up and now the hardware is 100% operable! I am so happy I kept giving Linux a go and found a great laptop with few compatibility issues.

Thanks to all of you who recommended Dell laptops. There were a couple minor problems, but both were solvable with a bit of ddg searching.

  • voxel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    the xps line is awesome, but I’d like to suggest something to whoever reads this comment: stay away from budget consumer grade dells! (aka inspirons and similar limes)
    i got an awesome deal on mine (used) but the build quality is atrocious and it’s literally starting to fall apart after like 3 months of use
    ik consumer grade crap sucks but dell is the worst offender (…they’re not even trying to hide it like hp lol)

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Had an old, used optiplex once. Not great performance due to its age, but it was solid. Super easy to work on (upgrade etc.) too since it had all these parts that folded out like a Transformer, but that also made it quite heavy.

    • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Maybe I’m not used to quality products as I’m poor in a poor country but I really loved my inspiron 14 …I bough it back in 2011 and decided to buy a new dell laptop in 2019 (inspiron too) because the 14R had died and the tech guy said it was the motherboard. I’ve never had any issues with them …the 14R is all plastic and looks fragile but I dropped it some times and it never broke. The new inspiron I got has an aluminum structure so looks it handles more falls hahaha. Anyway, I had a great experience with dell inspiron laptops regarding hardware and Linux compatibility but I’m not a demanding user. I intend to keep buying dell laptops in the future. Hey turns out the 14R just needed a new power supply and it’s running Fedora smoothly since I upgraded it’s ram.

    • uwutrash@pawb.social
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      2 years ago

      EXACTLY! Got an Inspiron with an i7 1260p. Solid system, atrocious body. Dented the top with the charge cable in my bag THROUGH PADDING, the bottom case snapped while doing a drive change and a replacement also cracked, it’s buckled in the middle 3 times, stock screws fell out, and now it won’t recognize drives anymore. $1300 piese of shit. Switched to a used P50 and soooo much happier.