It constantly throttles the CPI. I get lots of PCIe recoverable errors. The USB bus runs out of available throughout. Plugging anything Displaylink is a disaster.
The camera/microphone is below the screen, which sucks more than I expected.
It takes 2 hands to open the laptop.
It is possible to plug in the power supply such that computer thinks it is charging but it actually drains the battery.
I still love my old samsung 9 serie and wish the brand would have worked out the quirks and made a new one.
My next try will be a thinkpad carbon since every owner around me are very happy.
I would not spend 1400$ and 10-20 hours to configure the damn thing again, do not recommend.
Upgrading 17.10 and everything is working perfectly.
Still would rather use my MacBook though because of software incompatibilities.
Also, do you know if the new XPS 15 support a two hard drive configuration?
It works flawlessly with Ubuntu 17.10. I have the UHD screen which looks great with 2x scaling. I do a lot of work with Docker and can work much faster on Linux than before when I was on a MBP and had to run a VM.
The PCH overheats very easily causing cpu/gpu tasks to throttle for its life.
The system has a interrupt overload from the WiFi extreme which causes subtle stuttering.
I've lost 47%battery health in just over a year.
The sound pops when playing YouTube videos and sometimes just goes Max volume until the sound card resets.
The graphics card didn't work when I got it and had to be downgraded to a different model and version for it to work.
The thing is a piece of shit. I had the macbook 2015 before that and it worked flawlessly in comparison.
Maybe not the same but I've also had bad time with 13. Coil whine, 10 seconds to dell logo after pressing power button (sic!) and u had one firmware update that bricked the laptop. Fortunately it was still under warranty. And don't get me even started on accessories (TB15 was a disaster that should've been recalled).
Also the throttling in the XPS 15 is real. Even with the 960m I can't even run light games on it because of frequent fps drops... And the BIOS was pretty unstable for the first year (laptop running fans at maximum while in sleep mode, while getting really hot inside my bag), with lots of coil whine. Overall, I am very disappointed in the overall build quality of it (I previously had a 2010 macbook pro and had no problems). Going to try a Lenovo for my next laptop (it seems to have less build quality issues)
I'm also running Elementary OS on it and it's been okay.
Much faster GPUs, though.
I too experience constant erroneous thermal throttling (in Windows).
The docking station has extremely poor construction; any connectivity that travels through it flickers with the slightest mechanical provocation.
External displays don't work at all unless you disable switchable graphics and have severe compositing glitches regardless.
The official ubuntu install is so old that neither Firefox nor Chrome can install latest (without offroading dependencies), a modern ubuntu install without special drivers causes the backlight to turn on and off at 30Hz (hadn't seen that before!), and Dell's instructions for packaging drivers (can't just install them, you need to build an image) have broken in enough places to sink my best efforts.
Both of them had really good Ubuntu compatibility.
Wayland is working fine, hdmi-out, no prop. Have not found time to test the dp however.
I mean, the hardware/batterylife/support/build is great, although it does soak up grease from my fingers super easily.