Can confirm. I sold my MBP and bought myself one of the new Dell 15" developer editions. Trackpad is about on par with the prior physically-clicking mac trackpads. I run Fedora and the only thing that doesn't work is hot-plugging the Ethernet adapter. Otherwise all the usual Linux pitfalls like sleep/wake, wifi, hidpi, touch screen, etc. work fine out of the box. No plans to switch away.
I did exactly the same with an xps 13. Gave my Macbook Retina to my girlfriend, as the new models were not compelling at all. Fedora 25 is lovely on it and I can run docker and KVM on it natively. I will buy another Mac if they give me a proper value proposition.
