Will Ubuntu Run on Dell Inspiron 15 (5000)?

[bonzo2]

Greetings:


I'm considering buying the following Dell touch screen laptop and installing Ubuntu 14.04 on it.

The pre-installed Ubuntu systems are substantially more expensive. Does anyone know if Ubuntu

will run well on this system?


Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Laptop

Processor & Memory


Intel® Core i7-6500U Processor at 2.5GHz
16GB DDR3L 1600MHz RAM

Drives


1TB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
DVD-RW (Writes to DVD/CD)

Operating System


Microsoft® Windows 10 Professional

Graphics & Video


15.6" Touch screen LED-Backlit FHD (1920 x 1080) Display

4GB AMD Radeon™ R5 M335 Graphics


Communications:


Integrated Wide screen HD Webcam with Digital Microphone
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 + Bluetooth® 4.0

Keyboard:


Dell Backlit Keyboard + Numeric Keypad

Ports & Slots:


1x USB 3.0
2x USB 2.0
1x HDMI
1x Media Card Reader

Power Supply:


4-cell 40WHr Battery




Thanks,
Bonzo

[RobGoss]

Hello and welcome, from the specs that you posted it seems like your system is more than qualified to run Ubuntu light or heavy.

This should explain what's needed to run Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

[oldfred]

Dell recently updated Sputnik.
The Sputnik they released for 12.04 was required back then to make systems released then work, but by 14.04 all of the Sputnik fixes were included.

Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell Xps 15 9550 (i7-6700HQ - 1TB SSD - UHD 4k touch)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2317843
Dell Xps 15 9550 Ubuntu 15.10 on new Infinity display (i7 6gen 16gbr UHD 4k touch) post 272 says 16.04 good
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2301071
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2301071&p=13447241#post13447241
Uses Intel Wi-Fi adaptors
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/dells-skylake-xps-13-precision-workstations-now-come-with-ubuntu-preinstalled/
Dell support - Update on XPS 13/15 2016 Developer Edition availability
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19670562?pi22229=9