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And updated UX305CA works great with a 4.5 kernel.
How do you get on with the CPU - is the Core M series much different in practice?
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I'm in the same boat, and I have to use Vagrant + VirtualBox for just about anything docker related.
Not anymore :) https://blog.docker.com/2016/03/docker-for-mac-windows-beta/
Managing docker-machines manually on non-Linux platforms was really starting to get tedious. Hoping this works as seamlessly as I imagine it would.
Chromebook Pixel has been an awesome sometimes-Linux laptop for me. I'm still spending most of my time in ChromeOS, but the crouton project/extension allows me to have another linux chroot running for when I need to do work. There's a number of supported distros, although I've stuck with Ubuntu and XFCE, mostly because it stays out of my way. The fact that you can have the entire chroot or an individual app run in a…
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How is the build quality? I've had Dell laptops in the past given to me by my employer and the screen hinge has been a source of failure on two of them.
The touchpad on the skylake 13 is bad (not sure if it is broken).
I've been using the Razer Blade 2015 and I highly recommend it. It's expensive, but the machine itself has Macbook-level build quality and internals. The screen is great and everything works out of the box with Ubuntu. While I do have dual-boot set up, I run Ubuntu 95% of the time and it's been basically flawless. (Caveat: I haven't tried the webcam or hibernate, and I don't use the Nvidia card.) It's by far the best…
Just in case others are looking at Blades... My 2012 blade went in for repairs several times and has the worst keyboard I've ever used on a laptop. I don't know if they've improved their quality control any, but AFAIK they're still using terrible keyboards. Be careful and try one out before you commit!
I can endorse the Dell XPS13 9343: small, light, great battery life, great screen/keyboard. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. Some folks decided to replace the Broadcom wifi with Intel, because it's not ideal for linux. I believe that the newest XPS13 uses Intel instead.
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I'm pretty salty about Dell these days. I recommended my grandparents get a Dell so I wouldn't have to do too much tech support (I'm really rusty at Windows these days), and Dell decided that a machine manufactured and purchased in late 2012 is "too old" for them to bother making working Windows 10 drivers for. That's some real bullshit there. Of course, Microsoft has no idea, so the machine gets updated to Windows 1…
I in-place upgraded three computers to Windows 10. All three had serious problems with the upgrade. On one the graphics became slow because it had Intel HD 3000 which apparently doesn't work well in Windows 10. On another the monitor would not turn on when resuming from sleep. On the third, the entire installation screwed up and required a wholesale reinstallation. Those were one HP, one Lenovo, and one homegrown PC.…