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Ready to buy XPS 13 9360
Hello,
I'm just almost ready to buy new Dell XPS 13 9360, trying to reveal any doubts regarding hardware support in Linux.
Some questions:
1) Are there any problems with thunderbolt/type-c interface support in Linux? This is pretty critical, cause I'm going to connect external display via HDMI
2) Any issues with CABC in Full HD model? Is it really annoying or makes laptop usage uncomfortable?
3) Does Killer WiFi work well in Linux?
So, Linux users, please share some experience! I'm going to use kubuntu 16.10 distro
wychwood
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October 31st, 2016 10:00
Thanks for your reply.
Have you tried a dongle like DA200? It was the one I thought to buy for the laptop, cause I don't think I need exactly full-sized dock - all I need is to be able to connect external displays via HDMI.
Can anyone confirm if DA200 dongle is working under linux? (Or maybe it doesn't?)
Yury Vidineev
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October 31st, 2016 10:00
1. My Dell WD15 has many stability issues. Helpdesk said that Dell is trying to fix thunderbold for Linux. But no any ETA now
2. I can't help here. I have 4k screen
3. It works well for me (Ubuntu 16.04)
cloojure
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October 31st, 2016 12:00
I have the 2014 XPS 13 (model 9333). It works great with the D3100 dock and 2 external monitors (one on build-in port, one on D3100). Once the new drivers came out 2015-9 it worked great with Ubuntu 15.10 and later. Currently using 16.04.
Alan
Yury Vidineev
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October 31st, 2016 12:00
Sorry I haven't experience with DA200. Only with WD15 (works with some limitations and unexpected crashes) and MKS14 (works pretty good. Almost perfect)
bit101
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October 31st, 2016 14:00
I can only talk about the Killer WIFI card. Overall, it's been rock solid. The only thing I've noticed is that sometimes it fails to connect when coming out of suspend. I just made an alias "sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service" and run that if it fails to connect. That handles it 100% within a few seconds. But once it's up, like I said, rock solid.
Yury Vidineev
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October 31st, 2016 14:00
Hi. I have the same issue with wifi after suspend. And the same solution. I think it's some issue with network manager.. Did you try to find bug report?>
bit101
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October 31st, 2016 14:00
No, I didn't look into it in any more depth than that. It happens maybe 1/3 of the time for me. And the "fix" was easy, fast and works all the time.
Yury Vidineev
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October 31st, 2016 15:00
If you're interesting: I found some possible related bugs
bugs.launchpad.net/.../1589401
bugs.launchpad.net/.../1252121