I don’t wanna repeat myself, but: 7840u for the next few years, then I hope RISC V will be mature enough to kick some ass (and that framework releases a board for it).

That’s all I dream of.

I tried oh-my-bash with some fancy theme, but went back to plain old bash from my distro since suggestions for autocomplete had suddenly started to lag. Went back to default and it’s as quick as ever to suggest.

I’m not willing to trade efficiency for bells and whistles

Was gonna say this. Why TF is list not -l as…everywhere else?

Your single command is just an “&&” away

It happens all the time in the magical world of closed source, too.

Ever heard about the iOS vs Android fights? How people shame Android users for being green bubbles?

It’s just the extension of the my camp vs theirs applied to the tech field, nothing new.

Any modern browser will probably kill your setup anyway.

Google Sans Text, Cabin, Fira Sans, Roboto, Noto

For monospaced Jetbrains Mono, Fira Code, Iosevka

Laptops usually have a dedicated key to turn off the screen, no?

Goodix is the manufacturer of some popular FP readers (at least it’s the one I have on my 2021 XPS).

And it’s known to not support Linux at all.

So for me it’s just a useless button sitting there doing nothing.

removed Goodix

TW

I’m also just a normal tech person, so my answers may be inaccurate.

My understanding is:

1. ARM seems superior in the mobile computing domain where efficiency matters more than raw power. I wonder if that’s related to the RISC vs CISC instructions… if that’s the case, having an open architecture alternative to ARM would allow any manufacturer to create their CPU designs without having to pay a hefty fee to ARM. Should bring more competition and won’t keep manufacturers hostage of ARM. If ARMs raises their royalties 1000x, Apple, Qualcomm etc just have to comply for lack of alternatives, and consumers end up paying the price. This won’t be possible with RISC-V
2. I can definitely see this happening, or at least having the option. OSs and apps will have to build for that new architecture of course, which takes time and money. I’m personally particularly excited about laptops
3. I guess. I don’t think it’s ever impossible to do this, it’s always a matter of how much of an impact it has on performances

If I said something stupid, please let me know, I’d like to learn about this!

Well look at that, no one seems to mention opensuse/Tumbleweed.

Great sign 👍🏻

Fedora also unscathed.

Two of my favorites, if not my absolute favorites.

Isn’t zfs out of tree?

My experience is the complete opposite.

I pre-ordered a 13 inch DIY Ryzen 7840u with 32 gigs and it cost me 1600€. I will spend another 50 on an SSD. Not sure you can get that kind of hardware for less, elsewhere.

A similarly specced XPS for example is easily a couple hundred more.

Edit: just checked again, at least Dell Italy only sells the 13 XPS with a 13th (or 12th) gen Intel. Fine, I don’t really mind it. But it sells for 2100€ (with 32GB, a 1TB drive and an OLED display). I guess that the OLED alone might be worth the price difference.

The point tho is that even at the same price, I’d still take framework’s repairability any day.

Funny thing is, I’m gonna replace my current XPS 13 with an 11th gen Intel just because the RAM is not upgradable and I’m stuck with 16gigs.

I’m sick and tired of having to get rid of perfectly fine hardware just because it’s not upgradable.

With framework I can spend another 100-150 down the road and bump my config’s 32 to 64.