Comment 83 for bug 1169376

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Luis Angel Vicente Sanchez (langel-vicente) wrote : Re: [Bug 1169376] Re: XPS13 backlight stopped working after update 3.8.0-18.28

@Kyle Fazzari

Dell is selling XPS13 with Ubuntu preinstalled and Canonical is working
with them to provide full compatibility. It's hard to believe that Dell is
not willing to give away some XPS13 FullHD to canonical to help with
compatibility problems. I would not complain if it were a regression on one
release and Canonical would not have this
http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/dell on his webpage; but release after
release same bug means that Canonical make a change in the kernel, finger
cross and release it hoping it works... i don't mind if for every ubuntu
version I have to use a special PPA to have a system working, as I did with
12.04 and 12.10, but the whole point of saying that Canonical certified
that Ubuntu works in Dell XPS13 is a big selling point of this laptop. I
really appreciate the effort to make the touchpad work properly,... but I'm
a software developer and it's hard to believe for me that patches are
released without proper testing even in a alpha/beta release.

I opened a duplicate bug before finding this one, there I confirmed this
was a problem also with latest 3.10 at that time:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1179315