Not related to wifi, but Intel broke the IPU6 webcam on Linux also. I have a Dell XPS13 - on the initial Ubuntu they shipped with, it was working, but after a dist-upgrade it stopped. There's lots of traffic out there, with some reports that it started working again with the 6.1 kernel, but on mine (with Dell drivers and 6.2 kernel) it's broken.
There was another Intel related issue with this laptop also; the gpu would freeze/panic intermittently, multiple times a day. This was "fixed" by adding a boot flag in grub to turn off a certain feature, and I think the ultimate fix may be working its way into the kernel currently.
Really not the slick experience I was hoping for with the XPS13. I mostly work on my desktop so it's not the end of the world, but it has me thinking about getting a mac in 5 or so years, assuming Asahi reaches stability.
> There was another Intel related issue with this laptop also; the gpu would freeze/panic intermittently, multiple times a day.
I had this on my Dell XPS13 (9310) as well, although in my case it was a few times a week, maybe .5 times a day. It also seemed to almost always trigger when kwin was animating something, particularly switching to another virtual desktop, but never when playing any games. I can't imagine why, but the problem mostly went away when I turned off all animations in kwin, and seems to have gone away completely sometime about a year or so ago.
All in all, it's still a better experience than the Macbook Air I was using prior to having this XPS13... That damn Macbook loved to vomit onto the screen and lock up without warning. No dust, thermals seemed fine, battery was healthy... no clue what was wrong with it. And without many exposed settings to fiddle with.
Chromebooks are the only laptops you can usually expect to work correctly and integrate every peripheral with Linux. Which, no surprise, is why IPU6 cameras work on Chromebooks. It's open source and everything.
The reason these things are often broken on Ubuntu and the other distros is simply that the governance and organization of those projects is not incentivized to ship a working product.
There was another Intel related issue with this laptop also; the gpu would freeze/panic intermittently, multiple times a day. This was "fixed" by adding a boot flag in grub to turn off a certain feature, and I think the ultimate fix may be working its way into the kernel currently.
Really not the slick experience I was hoping for with the XPS13. I mostly work on my desktop so it's not the end of the world, but it has me thinking about getting a mac in 5 or so years, assuming Asahi reaches stability.