Paul Tagliamonte

More hardware adventures.

I got my Dell XPS13. Amazing.

The good news: This MacBook Air clone is clearly an Air competitor, and easily slightly better in nearly every regard except for the battery.

The bad news is that the Intel Wireless card needs non-free (I’ll be replacing that shortly), and the touchpad’s driver isn’t totally implemented until Kernel 3.16. I’m currently building a 3.14 kernel with the patch to send to the kind Debian kernel people. We’ll see if that works. Ubuntu Trusty already has the patch, but it didn’t get upstreamed. That kinda sucks.

It also shipped with UEFI disabled, and was defaulting to boot in ‘legacy’ mode. It shipped with Ubuntu, a bit disappointed to not see Ubuntu keys on the machine.

Touchscreen works; in short -stunning. I think I found my new travel buddy. Debian unstable runs great, stable had some issues.