It was enough for yo mom ohhhhhhhh!

j/k

I haaaate typing on a laptop, layout not withstanding.

Docks are pretty great now.

I have a dock at home and at work. Single cable to plug in and get proper peripherals, 2 + 1 monitors, and power.

It's nice to be able to undock and go sit in a Cafe to read emails or do whatever you don't need full regalia for.

I can see this working on a smaller form factor.

If you have to carry a separate keyboard, it defeats the purpose of an 8" laptop...

It's not. I carry one(mix 3s) as a pocket laptop for when Im going out but might need to do some work urgently and also as a lightweight backup in case something happens to my main laptop. For the former, it's been great and saved me many times, but for the latter... this did once happen when I bonked the entire screen out. To say it was a painful week while waiting for the replacement would be an understatement. My back was killing me the entire time, and the thing is so underpowered it was easier to remote into that screenless pc rather than trying to launch stuff locally. And even with that, the thing whirred like crazy. It's fine for a few minutes at a time but hearing it sll fay got annoying quick. And dont even get me started on the keyboard...

ASUS still makes netbooks.

I bought a little $200 model a few years ago. It weighs 9 oz.

Yeah, my favourite ever laptop. Would love to see the netbook return. Cheap and cheerful. Chromebooks just not the same

I'm strongly hoping that the framework 12'' becomes widely successful so that the format keeps being relevant.

My 11" netbook is my favorite portable PC I own. A bit slow but rock solid and about as heavy as a tablet.

I appreciated it, since he didn't do a legit stress test. Running a local llm is intensive on the hardware, and if it performs well on that, it'll likely perform well on most standard, non-useless tasks. So, I see that part as a makeshift stress test.

Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.

Uses the calamares installer, comes with all neccessary tools and, above all, is the safest bet if you need all KDE components to work properly. Makes enough sense to me but I'm biased since it's my daily driver too 😅 It's my first distro where genuinely so far "everything just works". I've had a much better experience than with stuff like Mint or Pop or whatever else people usually recommend.

First, if you're on the go, do you need a computer with you?

That's kinda the point of laptops

Second, if you do, that's what a dedicated laptop bag is for.

Why should I have to carry a whole bag in order to have more compute power available than a phone? This is the same argument as "you already have a bag for your mobile phone battery if you want to carry it everywhere, but why would you do that?"

The answer to that is "because they can". You don't have to like it, but others do, so if you can't understand the potential applications, then it's clearly not for you.

Sometimes all I need a small compact SSH machine when I'm at a client's site. This is a perfect use case for it.

I have a 10" Chuwi Minibook X. It's basically my go to when I go to my kids activities. For me, it's a better alternative than a phone or my tablet. It's small when folded up and weighs very little. The luggability is surprisingly better than my Framework 13. Plus, I have a real keyboard instead of a touchscreen that is surprisingly much better than I expected . That's handy for when I do want to do something more productive. And since it only cost me about $300 or so, I'm much less worried about it getting damaged.

I wouldn't just carry it around with me randomly in public. But, I could if I wanted to. It's a shame there are so few options like it. One of my biggest factors I was looking for was weight and overall footprint.

First, if you're on the go, do you need a computer with you?

Is that a real question? LOL

but I imagine it would be hard to get Linux to work well with the surface - especially the touch screen.

There's a dedicated Linux kernel for Surface devices. Surfaces are your best bet for installing Linux out of any of the Windows tablets.

I had better than 20x20 vision when they gave us eye-tests in high school and I’ve often gotten, “Holy shit, you can read that from here?” I always chose screen space over font-size even on small laptops but I recently had to dial it back a notch for the first time. The optometrists come for us all, eventually.

My vision still seems fine but it takes longer to adjust and focus. Like I have a digital clock I used to glance at to check the time and now I have to squint for a few seconds and wait. It’s sort of like a phone camera auto-focus where it sorts things out but it used to be immediate.

It can play 20 separate instances of Doom 2.