I'm writing this on the first Dell I've owned since... 1999: a new "Developer Edition" XPS-13 2015 (FHD i5 variant for max power savings, which are pretty incredible).<p>This is close the best linux laptop I've used, including various my various thinkpads and macbooks.<p>A couple years ago I met an enthusiastic Barton George showing off the first gen XPS 13 at the ubuntu dev conference. It was sexy but flawed. I wasn't interested in the machine, but I thought Barton was a guy to watch. His project Sputnik group is the <i>only</i> reason I have kept Dell on my radar at all.<p>They could be doing a lot in a better way: the customer outreach, ordering process, out of box experience: all include some (at times <i>very</i>) rough edges.<p>Linux on the desktop is happening and, as I've said for a long time, it's happening where it needs to: with developers first. I'm not super excited with their Ubuntu centric strategy, but it's minimal effort to get Arch up and running on the Dell dev units. If anyone is going this route I'm maintaining a kernel for the XPS 13 (2015) here: <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-xps13-alt/" rel="nofollow">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-xps13-alt/</a>