Comment by rowanG077
5 hours ago
TBH my asahi M2 macbook experience has been the best linux experience I have ever had. It's night and day compared to the XPS 13 I had before which was supposedly a well supported laptop for linux, you could even buy it with ubuntu.
The only real drawback is no thunderbolt, and till recently no DP, and no x86 support. But I don't use any x86 only apps enough for it to matter. No thunderbolt sucks though.
On the MacBook side, going without DisplayPort and Thunderbolt in a machine that’s supposed to have it is kinda crazy. The standard for Linux on laptops these days is 100% of hardware devices working. Anything below that is really below par.
If that’s the best Linux laptop experience you have ever had, I question the devices you got unlucky with.
Maybe your XPS just sucked in comparison to better PC laptops? Because it has been pretty poorly reviewed as of late, and Dell hasn’t really been considered a top choice in a few years, though supposedly the 2026 XPS 14 is a return to form according to early impressions.
My experience on my framework 13 is that I’ve never had to install a driver or fix hardware, and all my firmware updates automatically via fwupd.