Dell Bringing Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Support To Linux

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 3, 2016 @02:27AM from the bring-it-faster dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: A series of posts on the Project Sputnik developers' forum at Dell indicate that hardware on a soon to be released XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop will support Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C, which has been tested on the device with video and USB 3.1 on non-dock devices, although Dell's Type C docks are not yet supported. Intel has already implemented Thunderbolt 3 drivers in the Linux kernel, so this Dell initiative represents a first for a physical implementation on a consumer platform.

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Re:Drivers before available hardware? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-03 04:32 · Score: 3, Informative

You can already buy the laptop in question, its the XPS13 9350, and you can already buy the USB-C thunderbolt dock, thats the TB15. AND, the dock and laptop already work together in Linux. You just have to install Linux yourself on the 9350 right now, and its extremely pain free. The only bit of new information from the article appears to be that Dell is going to offer the 9350 pre-installed with Linux eventually, which is not a surprise.