Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 9575?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I almost never buy old machines that have soldered memory and limited upgradeability. My collection is of modifiable old MacBooks and Chromebooks, mostly. But here’s one time I have gone the soldered, locked down route. My wife is giving me this machine for Christmas - a Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 9575. It’s a weird machine, a 15 inch that flips into a tablet mode or tent mode or laptop mode. And an i7 quad core 2018 cpu juices things. Not to mention the screen is absolutely fantastic. And - plus or minus - is a touchscreen.

There are also some down sides, but my only worry now is that it won’t run Endeavor Linux. I believe it will run Ubuntu, but that doesn’t thrill me. I’d like to run Endeavor on this thing. [Added rest of this paragraph after posting the first version: The central issue with this rig is its Kaby Lake (i7 7700) iGPU, which is a weird hybrid chip between two rivals. A one-off, as they discontinued it fairly quickly. Nothing wrong with the chip, just corporate politics.]

My question: Does anyone else have experience with the 9575 and Endeavor? What do I need to know? Does it find the touch screen and the weird melded Intel/AMD cpu/gpu?

Thanks for any help folks can offer. And remember this is NOT the standard Dell XPS 15 from 2018. Looks like this:

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It should work fine out of the box, except for the fingerprint reader. There is a brief ArchWiki article for this device with a few notes if you would like to read through it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_XPS_15_2-in-1_(9575)

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I’m leaving this post up in case it offers help to someone else, but I ended up returning this machine to the seller; it was defective. Sigh. I did buy another Dell (an XPS 7590 15") and have Endeavor on it… will post soon on that adventure.