<story><title>Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/dell-xps-13-9360-review-lifelong-mac-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.&lt;p&gt;But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.&lt;p&gt;Two things that keep me in the Mac land.&lt;p&gt;1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio. 
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.&lt;p&gt;XPS13&amp;#x27;s display is too rectangle and I&amp;#x27;m not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.&lt;p&gt;I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heywire</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d recommend testing a live image of KDE Neon.  I loaded it on my Dell Latitude 7370 (distant cousin of the XPS 13) which has a 13&amp;quot; QHD+ touchscreen, and I&amp;#x27;m quite impressed with the &amp;quot;out of the box&amp;quot; experience with KDE Neon.  There are still a some applications that don&amp;#x27;t handle the DPI scaling well, but I had that problem on Windows too.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/dell-xps-13-9360-review-lifelong-mac-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.&lt;p&gt;But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.&lt;p&gt;Two things that keep me in the Mac land.&lt;p&gt;1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio. 
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.&lt;p&gt;XPS13&amp;#x27;s display is too rectangle and I&amp;#x27;m not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.&lt;p&gt;I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmanulis</author><text>For touchpad, replace Synaptics with libinput and it just works (tm), including palm rejection.</text></comment>