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Dell developer edition laptops are built for Linux. As usual with laptops there’s a tradeoff between portable and powerful.

Switchable graphics are a pain (anywhere, not just on Linux). I’d recommend getting a machine with passable integrated graphics, and doing any gaming on a desktop.

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I had an XPS 13 DE 9360. Nicest laptop I've ever used at first anyway. Fast (enough), thin, light, pre-installed gnu/linux, all day battery life, beautiful 3k screen. But something really annoyed me. After awhile the rubber strips on the bottom of it started to peel off and the glue leaked onto the table, desk or my lap! There was also an issue with firmware updates where the screen would black out after a firmware update. This happened a few times and was eventually why I quit using it. I didn't want to play roulette on my main machine so I had to find something different. Sad because that was one amazing laptop.

Could you just not do firmware updates? or were they automatic?

Sorry for the delayed response. I'm fairly sure firmware updates happened automatically through update-manager. But at the time I had it set up so I had to initiate all updates so it wouldn't be fully automatic. You can turn them off. That firmware is issue currently resolved. I had to use an external monitor for months. But that glue problem is still there.

Do the integrated graphics chips support Vulkan?

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