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After spending 3 days trying to install Ubuntu on an XPS 15, I am ready to give up.
It's just not possible to install Linux on it, it will either freeze on install, freeze on boot, freeze on shutdown, or freeze in the middle of all of these.
Using the dedicated GPU is impossible since Nvidia are fucking retards. The touchpad constantly stops working.

The internet is filled with distro respins and 500 page long manuals on how to get things working on an XPS 15, but nothing works properly. Even the fucking keyboard backlight doesn't turn on without writing 100 things in GRUB

For those saying Linux is "faster" and "more reliable", well fuck right off, my unlit keyboard says otherwise, I'm done.

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  • 2
    6y
    That's interesting, because I had exactly the opposite experience with it
  • 2
    6y
    This doesn't seem likely, especially since there's a developer model that comes default with Ubuntu.
  • 0
    6y
    @Stuxnet Yes, XPS 13, without the GPU. Mine is totally different
  • 1
    6y
    try enabling the nomodeset from the ubuntu boot menu(press F7 or F6 while.ubuntu logo shows up)

    I had the similar problem
  • 0
    6y
    @ngBuild elementary so far is doing fine, but the fans are constantly spinning, I'm not sure why. Cpu and gpu utilization is low
  • 0
    6y
    @ngBuild the latest nvidia drivers are 396
  • 0
    6y
    @ngBuild I found the problem for the fans - it's the high CPU usage of Gala, which is the ElementaryOS window manager. It doesn't use the GPU but the CPU instead. If i kill it everything goes back to normal
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