<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>grimgrin</author><text>Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple?&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify?&lt;p&gt;Genuinely curious</text></item><item><author>Clubber</author><text>Maybe Dell should fix their trackpad.</text></item><item><author>codegladiator</author><text>I wish there are less people like you and more people who want to fix things. For reasons which should be obvious I guess.</text></item><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>This is the perfect description of why I’ll probably never leave Mac land. I want my technology to work out the box, and Mac does that.&lt;p&gt;Sure I could probably setup the Linux trackpad to be Mac like if I threw plenty of hours at it, but I don’t want to waste my time like that, not anymore. I did in my youth, but now I’ll just buy the thing that works.</text></item><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>p2t2p</author><text>Surface&amp;#x27;s trackpad is as good as Mac&amp;#x27;s even though all other parts of experience is trash.&lt;p&gt;However, now Mac has this force touchpad which you don&amp;#x27;t really press, so it recognises all of the presses with no respect to where you do it. Nobody has anything like this and I must tell you that one gets used to it reaaaaaaly quick.</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>grimgrin</author><text>Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple?&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify?&lt;p&gt;Genuinely curious</text></item><item><author>Clubber</author><text>Maybe Dell should fix their trackpad.</text></item><item><author>codegladiator</author><text>I wish there are less people like you and more people who want to fix things. For reasons which should be obvious I guess.</text></item><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>This is the perfect description of why I’ll probably never leave Mac land. I want my technology to work out the box, and Mac does that.&lt;p&gt;Sure I could probably setup the Linux trackpad to be Mac like if I threw plenty of hours at it, but I don’t want to waste my time like that, not anymore. I did in my youth, but now I’ll just buy the thing that works.</text></item><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>gizzlon</author><text>I like my XPS 13 trackpad :) The mac ones seems too big, suspect it would be in the way and hamper the keyboard. (I haven&amp;#x27;t used a the newer Mac models enough to be certain). Dells works great on Linux (Arch + KDE)</text></comment>