The Dell XPS 13 is the best-known developer-focused, high-end Linux laptop. Here's how it got there.

Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying one for my daughter when she went off to college.”

So, how did Dell – best known for good-quality, mass-produced PCs – end up building top-of-the-line Ubuntu Linux laptops? Well, Barton George, Dell Technologies’ Developer Community manager, shared the “Project Sputnik” story this week in a presentation at the popular Linux and open-source community show, All Things Open.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Soldered SSD and RAM is something we expect from a cheap chromebook. It’s just not acceptable in a high end laptop.

    There are plenty of other good laptops that come with Linux installed.

    • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      including, *checks notes*, ah yes… most of DELL’s other offerings with linux pre-installed

        • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Is it something that depends on the region? In Brazil their Linux offerings are usually way cheaper precisely because you can forgo the Windows license.