There was a package called supey-key-dell (or some such) installed which I had to find and remove and some gnome config I had to change to make it work again. As 16.04 came with Unity, the super key is one of the key ingredients to starting apps or bringing up the dash. It came with an old image of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS pre-installed and after pulling a lot of updates, I thought I was going to get a nice fresh start with everything just working out of the box. I won’t go unmanicured into meetings anymore!

It’s at the bottom of the screen, so you get an upwards-angle no matter what you do and people in calls with you will always see a close up of your fingers typing. The placement of the webcam simply does not make sense. I knew I was going to be happy with this.Ī few things bothered me somewhat though. In general I really liked the hardware and how the machine felt a lot. It looked great, it was light, it was really well-built and whatever task I threw at the machine, it dealt with it nicely.

With the XPS this was not easily going to be possible anymore.Īnyway, the new machine arrived in the office. The specs looked great (big SSD disk, enough memory to play around with VMs/containers, etc.), but I had to brush away some fond memories of old laptops, where I was able to easily replace parts (memory, screen, disk, power jack, keyboard and more for my x220). Although I had bought devices with Linux pre-installed and laptops for friends as well, this was going to be my first own laptop coming with Ubuntu straight from the factory. After years of using Thinkpads, I went for a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu.

Ubuntu xps 13