On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >> > The XPS 13 at least is available as a "Developer Edition" that comes >> > with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. >> >> I "dual boot" windows and gentoo. The quotes are there since my current >> machine (3 years old) has never been in windows post-installation. The >> advantage of having windows available occurs if you need dell >> maintenance. > > Which is a rather poor reason for keeping Windows around. The Ubuntu > version is not significantly cheaper, but it would make dealing with > support that much easier if the machine was supposed to have Linux on it > in the first place.
The cost (after purchase) is a few 10s of GB of disk. Dell's remote hw diagnostics work well when you boot windows. My wife's machine is dell windows-only and she did make use of dell maintenance. That said, in order to confirm linux support for the various hardware pieces, I did temporarily select ubuntu. The result was that Wi-Gig wireless and LCD screen are not supported so I changed to the non Wi-Gig versions. allan
