Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition -- with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pre-installed

The links to Germany, France and the UK do not show the Ubuntu option.

I appreciate the heads up, let me forward this to the team to look into!

I have this dell.  The camera does not work by default under Ubuntu 2204.  (And not under any Linux distribution) . The mouse randomly freeze under Ubuntu 2204 for some seconds

Hi Barton,

I am looking to buy Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition with pre-loaded Ubuntu 22.04. Unfortunately, India is not listed in the countries where Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition  is available.

When it would be available in India?

This is good news.

Last autumn, I bought the Dell Vostro 15 7510 (i7 11th gen + Nvidia RTX GPU) as I thought Dell laptops were compatible with Linux/Ubuntu. I installed Manjaro aside Windows.

But I'm facing an issue with the fans and I don't understand how to fix it, though the hardware is working good under both Windows and Linux :

- Windows 11 : the fans are quiet.

- Manjaro 21.3.4 : the fans are constantly running.

- Ubuntu 21.04 Live : the fans are constantly running.

- Ubuntu 21.10 Live : the fans are quiet (issue fixed).

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Live : the fans are constantly running once again (fixed is broken).

- Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Live : the fans are quiet again (issue is fixed again).

I wish someone could tell me what is done by Ubuntu boot process/config to get the fans managed by the OS instead of UEFI BIOS, as the fans get quiet when booting under Ubuntu 21.10 and 22.04.1 LTS versions.

That way I could try the same configuration/setting under Manjaro. At Ubuntu boot process, the fans get quiet before starting Ubuntu's ubiquity, so i presume it's a kernel configuration and/or an activated driver/firmware at bootup.

@Kripa Shanker let me check with the team. thx!

I've got mine 10 days ago so I am missing 22.04 out-of-the-box.

I askd for the 22.04 OEM image to perform a clean install it, but tech support refused to offer me that image bacause I already bought mine with 20.04

Big thanks for your long term work, Barton and the rest of the team!

I'd like to note that the Finland link, and Belgium plus everything from Luxembourg forward do not work. I wonder if the domain http://previewconfigure.euro.dell.com/ is internal only? I've tried it last week, this week etc. If it's an URL the retailers can use then that'd be useful information when asking a quote.

There hasn't been an Dell's own online store in Finland earlier sadly, and the retailers do not offer or mention Ubuntu models at all unless specifically asking a quote, so at the moment Lenovo has the upper hand here.

It used to be different from just two years ago when XPS 13 Dev Edition and sometimes other models too were widely available in online stores around here, I'm not sure if there's anything the marketing department could do to fix back issue.

I'm writing this on my Dell XPS 13 9310 Ubuntu edition though, I went through the trouble in order to get one. But generally and as part of Ubuntu Finland website I need to currently recommend Lenovo web store with multiple Linux options or the one retailer that luckily does offer a couple Dell Ubuntu models (but not XPS 13).

@Mirvubu  I apologize for the slow response.  Thank you for your support and understand where youre coming from.  I have forwarded your comment to the team.

Just like in @Mirvubu post it seems that http://previewconfigure.euro.dell.com/ resolves to some private network address and that makes that site unusable. @DELL-Barton Ge could you please confirm that address, I'm unable to find developer edition anywhere in Poland.

@Mirvubu and @DustyBlankEagle,

I also get an error message when i click on http://previewconfigure.euro.dell.com/ 

However, when i click on Poland, Finland, Luxembourg above, the URL takes me to the euro configurator. (see below) Does this second URL work for you?

http://previewconfigure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=pl&ccc=true&cs=plrel01&dm=true&l=en&oc=XPS_Tributo_13_9320_CTO&prod=false&vw=classic&fb=1 ] 

@DELL-Barton Ge I ment that this URL is probably for Dell internal use. When you resolve this hostname you'll get a RFC1918 private network address 10.177.14.85 - which is not accessible from internet. Have you tried accessing that link outside corporate network?

$ dig previewconfigure.euro.dell.com @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> previewconfigure.euro.dell.com @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13118
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;previewconfigure.euro.dell.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
previewconfigure.euro.dell.com. 600 IN CNAME config-preview.ux.ins.dell.com.
config-preview.ux.ins.dell.com. 30 IN A 10.177.14.85

;; Query time: 184 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: wto paź 18 10:38:26 CEST 2022
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 111

@DustyBlankEagle and @Mirvubu  I thought I wasnt on the network when I previously tried the link but last night when I tried to access it from my ipad I too got an error msg.

let me raise this with the team. 

Ack, just what the DustBlankEagle said. I'd love there to be a Dell's vendor webshop available in Finland at some point, like Lenovo has, but that has not been the case so far.

When discussing with retailers, they have seemed to have access to custom configurations via some kind of website, so it's possible that URL would be useful when asking for a quote, if they don't find it otherwise. But that's still quite cumbersome.