Dell XPS 13 9310 with Omarchy

A 3.5K OLED owner completed a direct Arch installation, and a second owner installed Manjaro. Canonical certified a Core i5 configuration for an OEM Ubuntu 20.04 image, while Phoronix completed fresh Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro and Clear Linux benchmark runs on an i7 Developer Edition.

In practice Linux installation is established on several named configurations, but none tests the current Omarchy installer. The ArchWiki warns that some units ship in RAID storage mode and need AHCI/NVMe before the installer can see the drive; changing that setting can disrupt an existing operating system.

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The direct Arch OLED owner reached a usable desktop, and the current ArchWiki marks the Tiger Lake GPU working. The i7 Developer Edition also completed Ubuntu benchmarks and a later same-machine comparison across four fresh Linux installations.

In practice Tiger Lake graphics have direct Arch and broader Linux evidence. The OLED owner's application-specific scaling work and the age of the benchmark sources still keep this from being a current Omarchy result.

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The 3.5K OLED worked for one Arch owner, but comfortable use required 200% desktop scaling and application-specific launch changes. A separate Ubuntu owner was left with oversized text after installing and then removing a third-party scaling setup; a current Mint inventory shows the 1920-by-1200 panel active.

In practice Both FHD+ and OLED have positive display evidence. High-DPI application behavior and clean reversal of custom scaling remain separate usability questions rather than panel failures.

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Dell specifies a backlit keyboard and documents firmware control of the function-key mode, but no retained exact-model Linux report explicitly tests typing, hotkeys or the backlight.

In practice The hardware is present; Linux and Omarchy behavior remains unreported in this corpus.

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The current exact-model ArchWiki marks the touchpad working. The retained owner reports do not separately describe physical clicks, palm rejection or multi-finger gestures.

In practice Basic pointing has a positive Arch documentation result. Gesture quality under Omarchy remains unverified.

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One owner got infrared face login working until a reboot left the camera light on but the emitters off. A Manjaro owner found the fingerprint reader to be the only major component that did not work out of the box. A later Arch owner reported that the Goodix 27c6:533c reader worked with Dell's vendor binary but not the open driver under evaluation; the current ArchWiki still marks the fingerprint path partial.

In practice Both biometric paths have configuration-specific limits. The fingerprint route depends on a proprietary binary and alternate libfprint stack, and no retained report establishes a current Omarchy enrollment or login path.

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A current Mint inventory shows the Intel AX201 Wi-Fi driver loaded and its interface up. The current ArchWiki marks AX201 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth working, but documents the AX500 radio as a more difficult branch with partial Bluetooth and Wi-Fi recovery problems after suspend. In a NixOS report, that Qualcomm Bluetooth controller timed out during suspend; disabling it in firmware allowed the machine to sleep.

In practice Identify the radio before transferring a result. The AX201 has the cleaner current record; the AX500 can tie Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and successful suspend together.

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The direct Arch OLED owner got audio working by installing SOF firmware, and the current ArchWiki records audio as working with SOF. One current Linux Mint owner separately reported working speakers and a working headset microphone while the integrated microphone appeared in settings but captured no input.

In practice Speaker output has positive Arch and Mint evidence, while the integrated microphone remains a separate unresolved path. Installing SOF firmware does not prove microphone capture under Omarchy.

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The current ArchWiki marks both the RGB and infrared cameras working and documents the infrared-emitter setup. An earlier owner initially used infrared face recognition, but a reboot left the camera light on while the emitters stayed off.

In practice The RGB camera now has positive project documentation, and the infrared path has both setup guidance and an owner-reported regression. Neither establishes current Omarchy video calls or face login.

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The current ArchWiki documents modern standby rather than deep S3 sleep and warns that AX500 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth recovery can fail after suspend. One NixOS owner could not suspend while the Qualcomm Bluetooth controller was enabled; disabling it in firmware allowed suspend to complete.

In practice The workaround removes Bluetooth rather than fixing its suspend path. Owners should identify the radio and measure a real closed-lid interval on current firmware and kernel before relying on standby.

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One Pop!_OS owner reported external screens dropping or misbehaving when opening Settings. A later Ubuntu report found one WD22TB4-connected monitor available to ddcutil while a second identical display was missing from the utility.

In practice Video output and software monitor control are not the same result. These reports justify testing the exact dock, adapter, connection and monitor combination rather than declaring Thunderbolt displays broken.

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In a same-machine Linux comparison, Fedora led the overall benchmark result while Clear Linux ran warmer, reached thermal limits more often and produced more variable runs. Windows lab tests measured 11 hours of Wi-Fi browsing on FHD+ and 6 hours, 31 minutes on OLED with a light web page. The ArchWiki describes fast modern-standby drain and ties a better sleep result to using AHCI rather than RAID storage mode.

In practice Distribution tuning, display choice, storage mode and sleep state can all change practical behavior. The battery figures describe hardware capacity under Windows, not Omarchy runtime, and the retained corpus still lacks a controlled Omarchy battery or closed-lid test.

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