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Personally I'm on my 3rd XPS running Linux, and the install has mostly been smooth sailing.

The BIOS is configured for RAID rather than AHCI/SATA by default. Bumped into that with mine. It was fairly easy to modify Windows to not use the RAID version so I could boot into Linux on one drive and boot into Windows on the other. Suspect I could get Centos to go the RAID route, but did not want to mess with it.

I had one of the first XPSs, and it was a 'mare for the first few months - I'm kinda surprised it's still that much of an issue to be honest.

I love my Lenovo T4xx. Linux was a breeze to install.

I just wish the Fn and Ctrl keys were swapped. Although you can change it in the bios.

I did this and it was smooth sailing. All I had to do was set the hard drives from RAID to ACHI in the BIOS.

I should have mentioned I was trying to dual boot too. And Windows doesn’t like the flat out change. You need to change the settings in windows before changing the bios. Something I didn’t need to do on my Lenovo.