Which distros work with the Dell E6420 and E port dock

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Which distros work with the Dell E6420 and E port dock

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So far its been a mixed bag. Rosa R11 supports all features and the dock. Mint 19.1 Cinnamon supports all features but has an issue with the touchpad on the laptop, which surprised me. Neptune 5.6 works great on all counts which surprised me. Kubuntu 18.04 works but has intermittent issues with the backlit keyboard. Netrunner 19.01 works fine on the laptop but doesnt work with the dock and the same for Neon 18.04. No XFCE based distros work so far, Linux Lite 4.2, MX Linux 18, Xubuntu 18.04 are all a no go with the dock but work fine with the laptop but have mixed results with the backlit keyboard.

I originally tested with the E6400 and thought things might improve with the newer E6420 but ii hasnt.

Will continue to test more distros, Zorin 12.4 worked with the E6400 but will test it with the E6420. OpenSUSE works but its not the easiest distro to install nor maintain.

If youre using the laptop alone, youre choices are much wider but with the E series dock it gets far narrower.
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None of the Mate distros work and Zorin 12.4 didnt work either. Mageia 6.1 and OpenMandriva LX3.03 work but waiting on newer versions.
Gecko 150 works so that may be a possibility and easier to deal with than OpenSUSE.
I was hoping for more options.
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Gecko and Lubuntu are a no go. Im still amazed Netrunner 19.01 didnt work as the previous version 18.03 worked fine.
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So far Mint 19.1 Cinnamon, Rosa R11, Neptune 5.6 and Kubuntu 18.04 are the only ones that work, with dock and all laptop features.

Will be testing the newer versions of Mageia and OpenMandriva as they originally worked but no point in installing the older versions at this point.
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Its interesting as I was able to boot using the Plasma Wayland session with Neon but once I got to the desktop, a lot of things werent working and the session became unusable.
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Elementary 5.0 works even though I not wild about Pantheon but at least there are options.
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Got an updated Zorin 12.4 iso and its working with all features/dock so far. Resource usage though is 1g and theyve made some changes but at least its another optiuon.
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I was so hoping Fedora 29 KDE would work but it doesnt. Ive also noticed a few other distros that used to work like Gecko 150 do not work now.
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Was able to get Netrunner 19.01 to work with the dock and its also supporting the backlit keyboard. Recent updates and there was a ton of them seems to have solved the issues.
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So far so good as Ive had no issues with Netrunner 19.01 unlike some other distros where there were some after update missues.
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