Re: XPS 13 (9360)

"Eddie O'Connor" <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:29:40 -0500

I can appreciate the fact that the hardware is nice. but my brother has one...and its giving him headaches. (LITERALLY!) It seems Dell has some kind of "adaptive brightness' feature in the FHD model (its an XPS 13 9343 I believe!) and when he's in an IDE/text editor with a dark theme?...the screen DARKENS, then when/if he has to hit Google for something it gets ridiculously bright! he's been complaining of headaches ever since he got the darn thing....but here's the kick in the pants THERE IS NO DISCERNIBLE WAY TO SHUT THIS SO-CALLED "FEATURE" OFF!!.....he's scoured the web, and there IS a BIOS update/patch that's supposed to work...but guess what?...its only for CERTAIN models of XPS 13's!....so he spent upwards of $1500...for headaches?...and its not like this is something new...his XPS is from late 2015....we're in 2018!...and STILL the Dell devs have no "fix" for this?....i wonder if they have enough money to cover the amount of lawsuits they'll get hit with for people damaging their EYES using their device?...
* Sorry for the rant!...too much coffee and not enough sleep...

EGO II

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Danishka Navin <danishka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone use Dock with Fedora?
Do you experience any issues?

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Sean Smith <stoc2528@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Dell just announced an updated (new) XPS 13 but the older (9360)
      series are still available- for a time?
    I've got two of the XPS13 9360:  i3, 4gb / 128ssd with Win10
      preloaded and  i5 8gb 245ssd with Ubuntu preloaded.  I run/have
      run Linux on both.  I even tried the previous gen XPS13 developer
      model with the proprietary WiFi and Ubuntu preload but returned it
      because of the enormous hassle with the (previous) wifi.
    The XPS13 is a great machine for running Linux.  I've run Debian
      and Debian based distros, CentOS, Solus and Fedora on mine.  All
      the hardware works "out of the box" with the notable exception of
      Debian which require non-free drivers for the "Killer" brand
      Wifi.  I just use the "unofficial" Debian non-free iso images to
      install.
    All versions of Fedora; 24, 25, 26 and 27, that I've tried work
      wonderfully on the XPS13.  I would, however, consider getting one
      with Win10 if you catch one on sale or at a discount (i've never
      seen the "Developer/Linux" models discounted).  You can do a
      Clonzilla image of the Win10 preload, then blow it away and
      install Linux.
    One really nice thing about Dell's latest machines, XPS,
      OptiPlex, Latitude, etc., is that you can update the BIOS from the
      BIOS boot prompt.  There's no need to boot into an OS to update
      the BIOS, just download the BIOS update file (an .exe) to a FAT
      flash drive and the BIOS has it's own, built in, update engine.
    HTH,
    Sean

    On 1/2/2018 8:37 AM, Danishka Navin
      wrote:

      no, I would like to go for this model if fedora
        support.

        On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Terry
          Polzin <foxec208@xxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

            If you already own this device, try a live CD

                  On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:00 AM,
                    Danishka Navin <danishka@xxxxxxxxx>
                    wrote:

                        Hi there,

                        Does anyone use Fedora on XPS 13 (9360) [1] ?

                        http://www.dell.com/sg/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?oc=w51785746sgw10&model_id=xps-13-9360-laptop

                          I wonder if device drivers available for
                            this model.

                          Regards,

                              -- 

                                    Danishka Navin

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