A couple of weeks ago, I got an XPS 13" 9370 with the 8th generation i7 and the same screen, SSD, and memory as the OP shows. On our university contract, I couldn't get the one with Ubuntu and had to take Windows (but Dell adjusted the price a bit so we didn't pay the full Microsoft tax). I deleted Windows and installed Fedora. (It was a bit of a headache; I had to Google how to reset the way it sees the disk before I could repartition, etc.) And I have to switch a lot of things to USB-C now. ;-) But once I got it configured, the only issue is that the webcam doesn't work under Linux. There's a lot of discussion of this on the Dell Linux community forum (https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-General/Dell-xps-13-9370-Webcam-support/td-p/6032049). Apparently, at least on the ones that shipped with Ubuntu, Dell is willing to come out and replace the whole screen (which downgrades the firmware on the webcam to something the linux kernel knows about). And it sounds like they may have an actual software fix very soon. I hope that they'll release that upstream and it will get to Fedora quickly... In any case, the webcam works in a Windows VM (I'm using VirtualBox; you need to enable USB 2/3 and then tell it to use the webcam), so it's definitely not a hardware problem. The issue seems to involve UVC 1.50 and maybe the infrared camera. (But, at least for now, I don't have to put a piece of tape over the webcam.) I don't like the keyboard and trackpad as much as my 5-year-old Lenovo X1 (on which the battery is dying and keycaps are falling off, but it has real mouse buttons). But the battery life on the new Dell is really good, much better than the X1 ever was. And the screen is very nice when you do the appropriate HiDPI scaling. If you carry it around a lot, I would go with the 13" for the weight advantage. George
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