What DELL model do you have?

[tonyd33fan]

Dell Latitude D600
1.4ghz Intel Centrino Mobile
512mb Ram
32mb ATI Radeon
40gb Hard Drive
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

[Eanruig]

Dell Inspiron B120
Celeron 1.40 Ghz
2 Gig RAM
kernel 2.6.32-42

Came with Windows XP.

Got tired of slowdowns & hangups, so I overwrote XP with Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala.

Then, the 40 Gig HD froze up, and I replaced it with a 250 Gig drive, and installed 10.04 - Lucid Lynx. Wondrous to say, when I tried the frozen drive in a USB external drive before tossing it, it spun up, and I was able to grab my data. The 40 Gig still runs, but is too flaky to be reliable.

I backed up my data, then installed 12.04 - Precise Pangolin. Overall operation was so slow that I reverted to Lucid, and that's what's there now.

The only advantage of 12.04 is that my Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S works there, but not on 10.04.

[Axxon95]

I was given a Dell, that I upgraded and resurrected.
Model: Dell Dimension 4400
Processor: Intel P4 1.6GHz
RAM: 768MB(512+256)
GPU: GeForce 6200 256MB 64-bit AGPx4

Drives: 1 CD, 1 DVD, 1 Floppy
PCI Devices: LAN, Wireless 54Mbps, Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit, 4 USB 2.0 Connectors

Xubuntu 12.04.1
Runs really good.
1920x1080 isn't too bad through VGA.

[Dragonbite]

I have a Dell

1. Optiplex 745 I got from work, it was one that a coworker had before their computer got upgraded. Every few years we raffle off the extra computers to whomever is interested. Duo-core Intel @ 2GHz(?) and 6 GB of RAM
   
   It came at a good time because my previous deskop computer decided at that time to die. So I moved the hard drive to this machine and it is chugging along with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I am planning on upgrading it to 12.04 LTS 64-bit when I get the chance.
   
   
2. I took the hard drive out of the dead Dell Dimension 4600 machine. Its only hitch being the change from nVidia graphics to ATI.
   
   
3. I also got from this latest work raffle 2 (or was it 3?) Dell Optiplex 280s with P4 chips and 2 GB Ram each. I am going to set up one as a firewall / content filter for my home network and the other as an (internal) web server.
   
   
4. Then I got one more Dell but not sure of the model at this point. The video has 2 VGA connectors so I am planning on seeing if I can do dual-screen with that and make that my "play" machine.
   
   
5. And last (for now) is my Dell D400 laptop which is supposed to be the kids' (when I got a Thinkpad T42) but they lost the power chord and the Chinese knock-off gets super hot after a little use so I cannot leave it plugged in for any extended time.
   
   
6. Oh, and my wife has a Dell Inspiron R17 (N7010) but it is running Windows 7 so I don't count that.
   

All of these, except the D400 and my wife's, are corporate toss-aways.

[boogerama]

XPS One (21") / XPS 1340 - Both running Precise desktop. The XPS One, having a slower processor and less memory, runs quicker that the 1340 with a Core Duo 9600 and 8 gig of RAM. I still need to do some tweaking on the laptop.

Optiplex 745 - 12.04 Server. Use this for backups and file sharing at home.

[StinkySQL]

Dell 1501 with 4MB and plug in drives to switch from Vista, Windows 7 and now Ubuntu 12. Ubuntu is currently the fastest!

[xaegis]

Studio XPS 1645 DreamStudio

Inspirion M5030 Ubuntu12.04

[It hurts when IP]

Dell Optiplex GX280

Bought it at Goodwill for $30. Best $30 ever spent.

[hayvanat]

Dell 6520 with 8Gig Mem

no driver problem I faced so far with 12.04 x64, If I can achieve to access my corporate exchange emails will get rid of my crap win7 forever.

[DapperDrakeNewbieDR]

Dell Inspiron N5110, Ubuntu 12.04(Precise Pangolin)