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 ===== Current News =====
+==== 2018-02-17: New challenge, XPS 13 ====
+I got myself a new challenge: a brand new Dell XPS 13 9370 (2018 model) Developer Edition (non-touch). I really love this notebook, thus far I have not found one single point of criticism (I am not a webcam user ;-)).
+It comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and even after just booting it and using it for about 10 minutes I remembered why I don't like Ubuntu. So I quickly prepared a Debian Stretch installer stick with non-free firmware. The notebook is very thin and has no USB A ports anymore, let alone a RJ45 connector for LAN. So to install you depend on Wifi and for that the non-free firmware is really needed.
+However, somehow the Stretch installer didn't like the firmware, not even the updated one. It was looking for a 3.0/firmware-5.bin whereas there are only 3.0/firmware-4.bin and 3.0/firmware-6.bin files available. And because I wanted to start using this great piece of hardware as soon as possible I became lazy and just used the Buster installer which works fine.
+Points of attention so far (the rest is working perfectly):
+  * The Wifi randomly disconnects. I had to disable power management for the Wifi card, a description of that will follow later on this site.
+  * I am running KDE and using the compositor in hardware rendering mode (for e.g. the desktop cube) makes the screen become flickery after a while, the contents don't get redrawn. Switching to software rendering (no more cube) solves this problem and switching from the default OpenGL 2.0 to 3.1 makes it less likely to happen. I hope a future kernel module for the graphics will solve this problem.
+  * The keyboard backlight turns off after just 3 seconds even though the setting is at 10 seconds. I will have to research this further (low prio).
+As said, everything else works fine and I am really happy. Ironically, the [[https://www.archlinux.org/|Arch Linux]] Wiki pages for the [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9360)|9360]] and [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9370)|9370]] were more helpful than the [[https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Dell%20XPS%2013|Debian Wiki pages]] ;-)
+As soon as I solved my problems I might make an account and edit the Debian Wiki page for the 9370.
+Updates on this notebook and Debian will surely follow!
 ==== 2017-06-17: Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (Stretch) released ====
 Not much news on my site, even though content gets constantly polished and updated where needed.