> Responded to Carsten's message directly, forwarding to the mailing list, in case someone else wants is interested in the discussion.
Hi Carsten, thanks for your quick response! it's the xps 13 developer edition, optimized for Ubuntu 14.04, with Intel HD graphics 5500: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-available/ with the xps 13, dell started to contribute all driver patches for touchpad, keyboard, etc. back into kernel. which means, for both 14.04 and 15.05 everything should be working out of the box. i'll do a test run with bodhi over the weekend, and report my experience here. Dell has 2 notebooks optimized for linux right now, you can get them with ubuntu pre-installed: xps 13 developer edition precision m3800 work station: this review mentions that enlightenment was running fine http://www.networkworld.com/article/2897199/opensource-subnet/review-dells-ubuntu-powered-m3800-mobile-workstation-is-a-desktop-destroyer.html hidpi: yes, that's why i tried enlightenment again in the first place. was getting really bad rendering on ubuntu 13.04 a while ago with hidpi. using enlightenment i could just increase the zoom factor, everything worked. pretty awesome! i've used enlightenment a long time ago (2001-2004) was my favorite window manager back then. so thanks for all the hard work you put into it. :) On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 09:03:40 +0200 Raju Bitter <[email protected]> > said: > > > Hi, > > do you have any recommendation for using Enlightenment with Dell XPS 13? > > Does it work with Bodhi Linux 3.0? I want to get a new Linux notebook, > and > > it's time to go back using Enlightenment (which I last used back 10 years > > ago, I guess). Really like the clean design, compared to default Ubuntu > UI. > > Any input appreciated! Thanks, > > Raju > > what's the hardware on the xps13 you are looking at? if it's a new machine > in > general i'd say: > > 1. don't get optimus or any of these dual-gpu setups. either pure intel > (modernish gpus), or pure nvidia (in general i'm wary of ati/amd so i'd > generally counsel to keep away from them thanks to my history/experience). > 2. make sure you have more than 64m ram. i think that's easy. > 3. hi-dpi could be problematic if you plan to mix hi-dpi and "normal" dpi > screens. if you want all "hi dpi", or all normal - you are good to go with > scaling. > > that's really it. as such bodhi may work fine for you, as will arch (which > packages e verbatim and AUr offers git master tracking packages). opensuse > has > good e packages, and tbh the rest - i don't know off the top of my head, > but: > > https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/packaging_status/ > > :) > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
