I have the 9350 (6th gen, I think?). It's not bad, for me. The key is to reconfigure the touchpad to actually work like a Mac's. That is, one finger click anywhere on the pad is a left click, two fingers is a right click. The default when I got the machine about 18 months ago to make the bottom left and bottom right parts of the trackpad left and right click, respectively, which is terrible.

Palm rejection isn't really a thing I notice though, on any computer. I've had people tell me it is objectively terrible on trackpads I've had no trouble with.

It's a mess. Palm rejection is terrible. I use a wireless mouse with my XPS 13.

I can't speak for this new generation my work laptop is 6th generation XPS 13 running Ubuntu and the trackpad is absolutely terrible. Without an external mouse using the laptop is infuriating.

There are random clicks while typing.

Clicking small targets can be difficult because sometimes the cursor will decide to move 50px further than you expect

Attempting to move the cursor diagonally result in erratic stepping where the cursor moves horizontally, then vertically, then horizontally, etc.

Sometimes the cursor randomly jumps half way across the screen.

Clicks often register as drags.

And so on. I'm not alone, everyone in office has either switched to a Macbook or disabled the trackpad entirely.

I have the prior version and the trackpad is terrible compared to my MBP. Like devastatingly bad. It feels so odd coming back to that computer being forced to use a mouse. Using it longer than a minute with that trackpad makes me loose patience.

Reviews i read before buying it said the trackpad is great. And since they've said similar things for all Windows laptops i've had in the past--and the trackpads have always been bad, i wouldn't count on this one being good.

I have the XPS 9350 DE and the trackpad under Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 was completely unusable. Same exact trackpad is fine under Fedora Core 25+ as well as Debian 9 testing (what I currently run). I honestly don't see the point of Ubuntu anymore, now that Unity is going away.

I have a dell at work, not the XPS, and the trackpad is such a piece of shit. It even does this weird thing where it detects touches when your finger hovers over the thing.

Wow, I've had a completely different experience to others.

I think the trackpad is great, comparable to my Air 13 although slightly wanting in tap to click. No palm detection issues. I guess you just need to give it a try yourself.