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.

  • MooseBoys@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    I had a linux 5520 and it was terrible. Standby and bluetooth never worked properly. Are the new models any better?

    • sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      My family bought a dell vostro 3468 in a time of emergency

      Came with ubuntu(16.04 I think, maybe 18)

      It was dead slow after a few updates, thanks to snap

      We loaded windows on it and it was my second main computing machine ever

      I recently installed openSUSE tumbleweed on it with kde and it’s awesome! (Except for a dead battery)