Dell XPS 13 Kabylake Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
I have been using Linux on servers since 1993. I have been dual booting SUSE with Windows 2000 on my desktop between 2000-2004. Ubuntu and then Arch has been my daily driver 2004-2017. I am not exactly a Linux newbie. But, based on these long, long years, I swear Linux desktop advocates have Stockholm syndrome. Some experiences: Samsung stopped making drivers for their MFCs so I needed to toss a perfectly working laser MFC because it stopped working with Linux, just like that. Later, a HP MFC caused endless pain, seemingly every other Arch update broke one of Bluetooth &#x2F; printer of MFC &#x2F; scanner of MFC. Plain Wifi eventually worked more or less (but see the endless string of bugs with 5GHz) but enterprise wifi always has been a pain. The strange F5 VPN our company used was not particularly Linux friendly -- I could only get it to work by running Firefox as root (yuck!). The only reference to the entire shebang was our IT asking around on various forums how to get it work under Linux and noone answering. And then Firefox stopped supporting extensions and I needed to tether my phone to get on the VPN. We now have a different VPN, no idea about the Linux support.<p>I am now using Windows 10 with the Linux Subsystem. O&amp;O shutup takes care of the privacy concerns. I have a Lenovo Graphics Dock and docking and undocking is a nonevent. Do you want to be the one who gets an nVidia GPU hotplugging working on Linux -- and keeps it working through all the improvements the Linux desktop goes through? Worse, get IOMMU passthrough working with this setup because most of the games are still Windows only? I don&#x27;t, that&#x27;s for sure. I am 43 years old today and there is not enough time left to use a tamagotchi OS. The Linux Subsystem could have a better I&#x2F;O performance but I will live. It&#x27;s a surprisingly frustration free life. Some useful configuration tips <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chx&#x2F;chx.github.io&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How-I-set-up-my-Windows-10-(coming-from-Linux)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chx&#x2F;chx.github.io&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;How-I-set-up-my-Wi...</a><p>Before you inevitably downvote this, please comment where I am wrong. If you feel all the above are trivial, give me an offer for maintaing my Linux, I would actually love to get back there but for the time being I do not feel I can. I yearned for someone to take over desktop sysadmin from me for many years but I absolutely couldn&#x27;t find anyone so eventually I just gave up.