Dell’s 2019 XPS 13 DE: As close as we currently get to Linux-computing nirvana
I&#x27;m blown away that the majority of comments here about people&#x27;s experience with their XPS 13 is so negative.<p>I&#x27;ve written about this before on HN, to the point where it&#x27;s starting to feel a little rediculous, but my experience has been so positive I view this machine as the modern replacement of the glory days MBP. I have the 2018 edition of this laptop and to this day it performs amazingly well.<p>Battery life is on par with the new MBP I used for work in 2016. With Terminal, Chrome, Signal, PyCharm, and Hangouts open I consistently get up to 5 days of battery life. Suspend and sleep mode works perfectly when opening and closing the top. I do think TLP[1] is required for this though. If you upgrade Ubuntu from your stock installation from Dell, the config might be lost though.<p>It has literally never crashed on me. I&#x27;ve had absolutely no stability issues.<p>OS upgrades are seamless and have only resulted in performance improvements. I haven&#x27;t noticed any issues from Intel microcode updates, but this is anecdotal and I haven&#x27;t tested this thoroughly.<p>It&#x27;s the closest I&#x27;ve gotten to a MBP in terms of mouse pad quality. Gnome on Wayland provides great mouse pad gesture support, but X Org definitely still works, though I permanently moved to Wayland over a year ago.<p>I can&#x27;t comment on Dell support, because I&#x27;ve never actually had to contact them.<p>Happy to answer any questions anyone has.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linrunner.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;tlp&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linrunner.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;tlp&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tlp-linux-advanced-power-ma...</a>