http://www.project2501.ca/enWed, 01 Feb 2023 22:26:20 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.project2501.ca/posts/dell-xps-13-2015-developer-edition/BW Keller<div><p>What a pain in the butt this machine has been. For a machine that comes with Linux pre-installed, this thing sure doesn't play nicely with it. Out of the box, it comes with Ubuntu 14.04 installed, and mine came with the A03 BIOS. When I first booted, the installation tool crashed halfway through, leaving me with a semi-working system. I had to re-flash the machine back to the factory settings, and then try again (luckily it didn't crash the second round through). </p> <p>Even after getting Ubuntu set up, there is a horrendous bug in the touchpad driver that makes the cursor jerk wildly around every few minutes. I tried to solve this issue by upgrading the OS to 14.10, but that had the unfortunate effect of nuking the networking and leaving the machine in an unbootable state! YAY! Finally, doing a fresh install of 15.04 actually got everything working. With this, the thing is actually pretty sweet. The HW is amazing, from the screen to the battery to the keyboard. After a day of frustration, I'm pretty satisfied. I'll be posting updates to my experiences here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.project2501.ca/posts/dell-xps-13-2015-developer-edition/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>hardwarelinuxxps13http://www.project2501.ca/posts/dell-xps-13-2015-developer-edition/Thu, 28 May 2015 17:24:57 GMT