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====== Dell XPS 13 ====== | ====== Dell XPS 13 ====== | ||
Recently I got myself a Dell XPS 13 9370 (early 2018) Develper Edition with Ubuntu preinstalled. Well, Ubuntu is surely not my favourite so one of the first things I did was to delete Ubuntu and (try to) install Debian. Here I try to summarize my struggles and several solutions I found for the various problems. Also, I will give my humble opinion on this machine. | Recently I got myself a Dell XPS 13 9370 (early 2018) Develper Edition with Ubuntu preinstalled. Well, Ubuntu is surely not my favourite so one of the first things I did was to delete Ubuntu and (try to) install Debian. Here I try to summarize my struggles and several solutions I found for the various problems. Also, I will give my humble opinion on this machine. | ||
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Many information sources will tell you to to update to the latest BIOS. This is not actually necessary but I recommend doing that anyway. Upgrading the BIOS on the XPS 13 is easy, just place the BIOS executable in the EFI partition ''/ | Many information sources will tell you to to update to the latest BIOS. This is not actually necessary but I recommend doing that anyway. Upgrading the BIOS on the XPS 13 is easy, just place the BIOS executable in the EFI partition ''/ | ||
- | Some preliminaries are outlined in the several information sources already, I will summarize the important stuff. By the way, I always refer to BIOS when I mean the UEFI Firmware Setup because BIOS makes the language more fluent | + | Some preliminaries are outlined in the several information sources already, I will summarize the important stuff. By the way, I always refer to BIOS when I mean the UEFI Firmware Setup because BIOS simply flows nicer ;-) |
* In the BIOS set the SATA operation mode to AHCI instead of RAID (when Ubuntu is pre-installed this should already be the case). | * In the BIOS set the SATA operation mode to AHCI instead of RAID (when Ubuntu is pre-installed this should already be the case). | ||
* In the BIOS disable Secure Boot as Debian does not (yet) support this. | * In the BIOS disable Secure Boot as Debian does not (yet) support this. |
misc/xps_13.txt · Last modified: 2019-11-09 08:37 by jens