Dell’s 2018 XPS 13 DE—The best “out of the box” Linux laptop gets the best OS

Dell made a lot of hardware changes to the 2018 XPS—do they play nice with Ubuntu 18.04?

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[Findecanor]

Was the Dell XPS 13 2018 with a European keyboard any good?

Always when there is a laptop model, manufacturer tend to ship models with US-ANSI keyboards to reviewers, and that is also all that is shown on Dell's web site in this case.
For us Europeans, who have a split left Shift and vertical Enter key on our keyboards, those keys are sometimes very compromised on laptops that had been designed for US-ANSI first.

Getting a laptop where the Enter key is not tiny or that keys have not been moved around in weird ways can be quite a big deal if you are going to type on them all day, every day at work.

 

[Findecanor]

I understand that a USB-A port is thicker than the sidewall of modern ultrabooks, but isn't there an alternate solution? Perhaps a hinged, spring-loaded catch that could come down when I wanted a fat port. The only part fat about the -A port is the rectangular housing to guide in the plug. The bottom of the guide could overlap to the slot in the closed position.

That's just asking for a part that breaks frequently.

If it's designed poorly.

Dell XPS 2012 had a Ethernet port with a spring-loaded catch. I wonder how that fared. It was gone on the 2013 model.