[Cialug] New laptop

[Justin Richeson]

Dunno if the new actual nVidia open source drivers are any good....but you
have to have a certain level of card for them....might be worth some
research.  Sadly I don't have anything that nice....

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM Jared Brees <fromj2sitsme at msn.com> wrote:

> I'm not seeing any current XPS 15 with Linux options - I believe the
> Developer Editions are only the XPS 13 now. Also, the current XPS 15 does
> not have an Nvidia GPU option from what I'm seeing. If you had a link to a
> specific machine you're considering, that might be more useful?
>
> I have an XPS 13 Developer Edition from 2023 (same model as the XPS 13
> Plus specs-wise, but comes with Ubuntu preinstalled) - but I also run
> Ubuntu anyway. Mine is an Intel integrated graphics, and the issues I've
> had have been more drivers for audio and webcam, than anything else. (They
> worked fine with Dell's tweaked image, but I had to do a lot of manual work
> when I clean-installed Ubuntu from Canonical directly.)
>
> In general, if you're running Ubuntu, and you use the GUI to pick a
> proprietary Nvidia driver, everything generally works fine. The Nouveau
> drivers are still trash from my experience. Other distros have very
> different experiences, depending on the distro and how well they integrate
> it, etc.
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> Subject: [Cialug] New laptop
>
> Looing for a new laptop with decent balance between power & battery, ..
> looks like an XPS15 even has linux installed options, but both Intel &
> nVidia graphics.
>
> Can anyone confirm that the nVidia drivers are acceptable with the newer
> chips, .. and or a configuration that is known to work?
>
>         TIA
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