
This one has the i5 with 16 GB of RAM, and the Windows version I saw didn’t offer that combo… to get 16 GB, you had to upgrade to the i7, for another $200. My model (“Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition”) did not come with a Windows option, so I can’t compare directly what it would have been with Windows. Or maybe they just thought it would cost them more to support it, with most of their tech force geared toward Windows. But Linux is free, and Windows costs Dell money! How could it be?Īpparently, the bloatware like McAfee and such subsidized the cost of Windows, and part of the cost of the hardware. this app helps you learn to type without looking at the keyboard. Skype ID, or phone number, and a password to sign into Microsoft services like Microsoft 365, Xbox consoles, or Windows 10 PCs. I had read years ago about some other Dell, where people had been begging Dell to have a Linux OEM version without Windows, and when it came, they were shocked that it cost more, not less. At the bottom of the browser window, select Open to open the o15-ctrremove.diagcab file. The app is free and can be used with any Office 365 subscription, Office 2019, Office 2016, or the free web-based version of Office for consumers.

That and some custom drivers were all that I saw that was not standard Ubuntu stuff. One is a support assistant thing, and the other is a rescue media builder, which builds an Ubuntu reinstaller from the recovery partition, much as it would be with a Windows system. There are two Dell programs preinstalled on Linux. Of course, that didn’t mean I left Ubuntu (with GNOME) on there… soon as I learned all I needed to about the default installation, out it went. There (apparently) is no Linux bloatware, so nothing to remove. I had those on my Dell G3 (which came with Windows 10) also when it was new,and I removed them with no issues.
