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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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.

something like this?

I wouldn't want any such construction for a usb port tbh, seems like it's asking for problems.

I've seen far saner ones, in which the bottom part just swivels downwards a tiny bit. This one does indeed look like a recipe for disaster.

EDIT:

For example, this one: https://us.answers.acer.com/app/answers ... er-laptops

Wish my XPS 15 9550 had one of those, would have been useful a couple of times.

Edit 2:

This is the one on the old XPS 14/15 https://blog.dell.com/uploads/2012/06/2 ... 2AEED4.png

I've seen it working on a friends laptop, seemed more than sturdy enough.

 

[dj__jg]

So much talk about wanting the 15 inch model.

It is nice but I bought an XPS 15 and for school it was great but now... wish I had a 13 for more portability. The 15 is just over that line of too big and bulky IMO.

Dunno, I use mine (9550) for uni and I think it's small enough, fits perfectly on those atrociously small foldout tables in the lecture halls.

Only problem I have with it is that I dropped it once (or rather, I dropped myself, tripped over a low fence at decent speed, fell on my face, had just enough time to think 'glad my laptop is safely in my backpack' before my backpack flew over my head and into the pavement.)

The one screw post holding the case together in the top right corner around the hinge broke off, and the hinge has by now worked itself loose. Gotta replace the entire fibre-resin part and am having trouble finding replacement parts that don't have the exact same defect.