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Okay, will do...

Did you ever resolved this issue?

I have the exact same problem with the Microsoft Surface keyboard - it makes the keyboard borderline useless. I found this post on the Microsoft forums:...

It's now 2018, and I agree with the OP - Nvidia drivers on Linux are pretty bad. I'm not talking about the number of pixels an Nvidia card can push to the screen per second. I'm talking more about...

Thank you! Every now and then (about every 3rd or 4th shutdown) my Kubuntu 17.10 would hang for a couple of minutes. After changing DefaultTimeoutStopSec to 4s (4 seconds), I haven't had a single...

Looks like I was wrong (kind of). I just did a fresh install of KDE Neon (User Edition - Stable), and didn't install the nVidia drivers just to see what would happen. Everything worked great,...

Thanks - I'll try out the Edimax EW-7822ULC AC1200. I'm not worried about range or speed, I just want something that will work on Linux, will connect to AC networks, and is a "nano" form factor. The...

Sorry for the late reply - I'll still detail my experiences with this laptop just in case anyone is interested.

My laptop is a PC Specialist Defiance II, which is a re-badged Clevo P65_P67RGRERA:...

Could someone please recommend a decent A/C nano-Wifi dongle that works with 2.4GHz and 5GHz access points? At present, I'm using a:


0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n
...

Don't change anything in /etc/resolv.conf - it's not used anymore. Instead, modify:


/etc/systemd/resolved.conf

Uncomment the line


#DNS=

It's very confusing getting both the Bluetooth and WiFi working with this dongle, but it's doable (I've managed to do it on Kubuntu 17.10 running kernel 4.13).

There are two kernel modules you...

I switched to Kubuntu after Canonical announced it was ditching Unity, and am really glad I did! I'm not really a distro-hopper, so will probably stick with Kubuntu for the foreseeable future. I...

On an nVidia GTX 1070, running proprietary driver 370.28:

glmark2
Score: 17045

glmark2 --s 1920x1080
Score: 9026

and on a 2560x1440 monitor:

Hi Dario,

It looks like my wireless adapter is identical to yours:



scott@d2-lin:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product:...

Hi Dario,

I performed an update last night, which included Intel GPU driver updates from Oibaf's PPA. Strangest thing: while lshw and lspci still work, sudo lshw -C network now freezes my machine....

I just noticed that turning off CPU cores doesn't make much of a difference to power consumption.

Hi Dario,

Thank you so much! I am finally in the same place as you - using the Intel GPU and being able to completely cut power to the nVidia GPU :). Here's my power usage when idle:


...

Hi Dario,

I have tried the steps you mentioned, but unfortunately they do not work for me. Perhaps we have slightly different BIOSes. In your BIOS, do you have an option to switch the graphics...

Thanks for the reply Dario! I'm at work at the moment, so cannot try it out right now, but this will be the first thing I do when I get home :) I don't mind losing everything on the laptop, as it's a...

I bought one of these from PC Specialist here in London, but it was branded as a "Defiance II" (came with 32GB of RAM, the Intel i7-6820HK, 500GB SSD, nVidia 970m). It runs Ubuntu 15.10 almost...

If you are using the Intel GPU, you could always try to set your backlighting level in your rc.local:

1. Open a terminal.
2. sudo vi /etc/rc.local
3. Add (before the line containing exit 0):...

Firstly, is there any reason why you're using Ubuntu 15.04? 15.04 is not an LTS and is no longer supported. I would recommend upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10.

In regards to installing Java, you could...

Hi Dario,

I have a machine that looks almost identical to yours, a "PC Specialist Defiance II" (which I believe is a re-branded Clevo), and am running Ubuntu 15.10. I have searched long and hard...

Many thanks jchedstrom. I'm still undecided. I currently have the Dell M3800 and can install Linux in around 30 minutes without any problems. I'm still leaning toward this XPS 9550 as I haven't seen...

Thanks chili555. Your suggestion definitely solved the issue with the wifi not starting when I boot my laptop (it's also good to know where to obtain the Linux module for the Intel 7260). It has also...