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I'm going with this Dell and returning my Lenovo Slim 7 Pro. In my previous thread saying I switched to Windows I read that Dells offer great compatibility. I ordered this Dell XPS 13 and plan on going with Pop OS. Thoughts on this? Good choice?

Edit: Apparently it's certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I assume I should go with This particular Ubuntu version then?

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[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dell supports pre-installed Ubuntu on the XPS Plus configuration. You can order it with Ubuntu installed out of their webshop. They also have repos for all the drivers.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ubuntu LTS in general ships with very out-dated software. Many software are lacking in many useful features.

Although most of this can be mitigated with virtual environment of your programming language of choice, or flatpak/snap/appimage. There are several, like libreoffice, latex, and DE, are not so easy to fix.

I am not convinced LTS is a good environment for most users.