[wslh]

That is why I think Dell XPS 13 is top: three external monitors via a Thunderbolt TB16 and a desktop experience only plugging a single cable.

This is not to say that the XPS 13 is perfect (need to change battery every two years in all the notebooks at the office and the notebook gets hot) but the notebook is great in many other factors.

[dijit]

FWIW (and, anecdotally); my company just started rolling out XPS 13's and had to stop as they are overheating constantly.

Instead, people are going to be getting latitudes.

[andrewmackrodt]

I have the XPS 13 2-in-1 and the thermals under Windows leave a lot to be desired. It's possible to apply a small undervolt and increase the Intel turbo limits which significantly improves performance while being able to run with the balanced fan profile. If anyone wants my ThrottleStop config I can upload it to pastebin.

I run Ubuntu day to day and it has much better performance and less fan noise (presumed better thermals) than Windows.

[tinco]

Our product has a webgl component, and the XPS13 would constantly crash Ubuntu when the webgl view was open. It was so unworkable the developer switched to windows with WSL2 just to have a stable environment.

Which is annoying because the whole reason I was buying XPS laptops for our devs was supposedly good Linux support. Maybe the laptop was overheating?

[ClumsyPilot]

I have given up on 13" laptops for performance demanding work, you just can't stuff cooling into that package.