Ubuntu 18.04

[CognitiveMango]

Hello,

I am trying to get started with linux on my new laptop as I am studying computer science. I am having trouble installing Ubuntu 18.04 on this particular laptop, just like I had trouble installing and using previous versions of ubuntu on it, which is preventing me from making linux my primary OS. I followed the required steps and can "sometimes" boot into the live USB (not always). And I didnt have to set nouveau.modeset=0. When I am able to boot into it, I follow the install instructions till the last prompt, after which the installer simply force closes. Rebooting/shutdown instantly freezes the entire machine. I would like some help installing 18.04 and I hope this guide is updated for it. I am willing to provide logs but I am not sure which ones to provide and how to obtain them. Thank you in advance.

[CognitiveMango]

Does anyone have any advice? I still can't get it to work. @graingert it seems like you got it working? Could I ask for your assistance with this?

[oliver-dvorski]

I was just trying to upgrade myself for the past couple of days. Found something that might interest you https://github.com/stockmind/dell-xps-9560-ubuntu-respin/blob/master/README.md

But in the end I stopped trying to force 18.04 on the thing. Instead I went back to 17.10 where everything works. It's been only a couple of weeks since the release and we have another two months until the 17.10 eol. So I'll just give canonical and the community some time to figure shit out and try to upgrade again a bit later

[CognitiveMango]

haha i already found that and i asked for assistance there as well. im not so sure about all the respin changes theyre making, since i dont fully understand them, but im still planning to try out the respun iso. id like to first understand why the default iso wont work, and what changes theyre making and why, but they simply asked me to respin it without giving me reasons, so im kinda hesitant. maybe i should just ask for help in the ubuntu forums? im sure theres a thread already about it, its been open for several months (for 17.04 and 17.10) and theyve still not fixed whatever the problem is :/
kinda surprising since this is the flagship laptop of a major electronics company lol. it doesnt make sense for me to set up 17.10 though. the crappy part is fedora 28 refuses to boot as well. 2 major distros on a recent flagship laptop dont work out of the box, im sad xD. everything works on my old laptop so ill use that to learn linux for now. but i do want to get a linux environment set up on a more modern machine, because thats what ill actually be using most of the time.

i just realized: should i be using the gpt partition for uefi in rufus instead of the default mbr for bios/uefi?

[oliver-dvorski]

Errrrr don't they have a "do it yourself" guide for those respins? Explaining how they made the iso?

Yeah it sucks that this is a nightmare, I'm super pissed as well. After trying to upgrade to 18.04 and having everything fall apart, I wanted to switch to windows for good but goddamnit windows doesn't have a proper terminal, there's no bash, there's no .bashrc and stuff. They do offer a Linux subsystem but that's just ridiculous compared to what I'm used to. What's even more hilarious is the fact that dell is shipping Ubuntu laptops... Maybe even from the XPS lineup, not sure.

About rufus - not sure, I doubt it tho. Try etcher (etcher.io) when in doubt 😁

[haquezameer]

@oliver-dvorski can you help me with dual booting win 10 and ubuntu 16.04? I followed this guide but after my ubuntu installation, sound is not working. It shows dummy output.

[hyviquel]

Just to share my experience: I successfully installed Ubuntu 18.04 in dual boot with Windows 10 using your guide (Nvidia 396). I noticed some problems with suspend/resume after installing Nvidia driver.

[hyviquel]

By the way, xserver-xorg-input-libinput is installed by default in 18.04

[oliver-dvorski]

@zamhaq I don't get why GitHub didn't notify me of your comment, didn't see it May... You still having issues? Send an email my way if so, maybe we can work something out.