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I have to say that installing Linux on that laptop was not the easiest, multiple challenges including wifi drivers and trackpad drivers issues. But once it's all fixed up, it works well. I chose it for a combination of low price and lightweight.
Dell XPS 13 (9360) with Debian Sid, works flawlessly. Though some initial setup is required: turning off DBC (.exe available at Dell's support site) and using latest ath10k firmware from github. After that it's a laptop of my dreams ) Light, small, 13" screen in a typical 11" laptop chasis. The only drawback is soldered RAM, I have a 8GB version and Angular's reloader leaked memory, so I had to restart it every few h…
Why? Because my top-end 2013 MBP 15" died and I couldn't find anything I liked better. But it was still plenty fast.
I want to flee macOS, as Apple doesn't truly care about it anymore, but I can't tolerate anything else. I want to tolerate Windows 10 as a main OS but I can't get myself there, yet.
Now: X1 Carbon 1st gen. its tough as old boots and light as a feather. sadly its also pretty old now Soon: Undecided, was going to be an x1 extreme until they put the price up by £500 for no reason so itll likely be an xps15 or a 13-14" laptop and an eGPU next
> price up by £500 for no reason The reason is that it's an "extreme" model. It has a better processor and way better graphics card. You can also still get this year's "non-extreme" X1 Carbon, the 6th generation. That's still the same price.