Another option you may or may not be aware of is Tuxedo Computers which seem to be a more premium option. I have no experience with them but they look pretty sweet.
One time they shipped a device where the trackpad did not work. Well, not on Linux at least. Their excuse: The hardware manufacturer chose a newer model not yet supported.
They were helpful and provided a new firmware a few days later, which did solve the issue, but out-of-the-box experience was not exciting.
I’m still using this machine, however.
Both this and a model I bought earlier felt cheaper than the price point. Maybe it is not fair; maybe it’s not that important, but at 1000€+ I have some expection on build quantity and loooks.
Those are small things, sure, but they are not perfect, yet.
Thanks for the insight, I’ve been looking at replacing an aging thinkpad that I use to tinker with linux on but not much else on. I keep fluctuating between getting their one of their most basic models and using it as a tinkering machine or completely maxing the specs and using it as my primary machine and fully switching to desktop Linux.
Your insight has made this decision harder so… thanks? Haha!
A long time ago, when I was broke and decided I couldn’t afford Photoshop, I decided to invest the time in learning GIMP.
Even though I’m a UX professional, and the barely okay UX does bother me, that has turned out to be a wise investment because no matter what, GIMP is always there for me. Always!
The price never goes up. It never gets paywalled by a subscription. It never has shady license changes. It changes slowly and deliberately. I never have to convince a new boss to pay for it. I never have to wonder if it will be available for a project.
That was like 20 years ago. I don’t how much value I’ve gotten out of that initial investment, but I bet it’s a LOT.
I work with a small nonprofit that years ago was donated Photoshop. Over the years as upgrades happened, the org received new donations in one way or another to keep it current enough that it was still helpful. Even with a legit corporate donation of the software the license for it was a pain to deal with. At one point when it needed to be reinstalled it was no longer possible and I told the org to just forget about it. Last time I talked with Adobe to try to get it working, which they refused to do, I ended up telling them I would never use an Adobe product willingly again. I personally learned Gimp at that point and while I only use it from time to time it does the job and as you say, it is always there, always works, has plenty of online help and does anything that I need it to do.
Just like beingoff corporate social media, I try to use FOSS as much as is reasonable because while it may have rougher edges at times, it can actually be more reliable. I manage some servers as part of my job and over the years the licensed stuff, Windows server, Exchange, VMWare at some point will bite you back with a dead end or major costs where as Debian...
Unless I’m misunderstanding, that’s all related to those KDE packages. I’d say if you’re a heavy user of Plasma or apps relying on those KDE packages you might as well enable it.
Telemetry, supposed to be only sending data that would benefit the user, by helping the developers to understand what the users really need.
Microsoft and Apple abused that term and it became just ‘data collection’. FOSS telemetry shouldn’t, and usually - hopefully - wouldn’t collect unnecessary data, to sell it back as adverts.
So if you trust <project-name>, I don’t see why not to enable it. It just helps the devs, and you too, at the end.
If you’re asking for CLI or shell help in particular, I’m a mod at !shell and !commandline and we’d welcome it there. But those aren’t as big as this community.
It might be more web design leading but my company’s designers have switched to Figma, which is web based and has allowed me to work with their files for dev on Linux.
Not exactly what I’m looking for, unfortunately. Thank you, though. For UI/UX, I prefer Lunacy as it’s native and pretty much the same thing as Figma. Penpot works good too, though it’s still very much in development.
I use krita plus darktable. Together they give me everything I need.
You are correct that Krita is not a photo editor on its own. But it is also not designed to be. Linux developers have less of a one tool for every job ideal. Due to not needing to compete the same way commercial developers do.
The modularity thing seems too gimmicky to me. Like the Motorola phones with the same concept. I do think it’s a good direction for repairability though.
Do either have a touchpad as good as the ones on macs or xps?
That I can kit it out for different situations. Working on raspberry pis, networking, or 3d printers? Micro SD, Ethernet, USB A, and USB c. Going to a meeting? Dual USB c, USB A, and either HDMI or displayport.
That I can pop out an HDMI, displayport, or Ethernet module and hand it to someone else who needs an adapter in a pinch bc it’s just usb c.
The touchpad on the framework is nice, but its definitely not as nice as my partner’s 2022 MacBook pro 14. I had a Mac before this, but honestly I don’t miss the trackpad that much.
How is the ability to swap out dongles better than a laptop that already has all the ports to begin with?
The framework 13 only has 4 ports. There is plenty of space in laptops of that size to include all of the ports you mentioned, if the laptop was built like a normal laptop.
The swappable ports thing is nothing more than a gimmick. It doesn’t make the laptop better, it makes it worse, because the bulky dongles causes the laptop to have a pitifully low number of ports.
Framework makes very good laptops, but that is despite the modularity and not because of it.
ever seen a laptop with micro-sd, full-size display port, full-size hdmi and a usb-c, that is also repairable and at least committed to making their mainboards compatible with core/libreboot?
I have seen plenty of laptops with that many ports. A laptop I had back in the day had a full sized HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, micro-sd and several USB ports, and it was the same size as the framework.
The framework 13 would be a better laptop if they just included all the ports instead of making it modular. They could have done that.
Great! Can you buy a replacement motherboard to upgrade it to current-gen Intel or AMD? Laptops with that many ports are a rarity now. If you want to dispute my claim you can send me the model number of a sort-of recent laptop with
2-4x thunderbolt usb-c
full size HDMI
full size display port
a micro-sd card slot
a full size SD card slot (not yet released)
2.5 GbE
at least 1 audio jack, 2 would be nice if your friend also wants to listen or whatever
Many people don’t get what Framework is doing and that is fine. Buy a disposable laptop with everything soldered in and throw it in land fill when it breaks if that is what you want. The costs of unsustainable mass consumption isn’t properly costed into purchases so the pollution and waste are left to future generations to deal with and plenty of people are more than happy with buying a bigger SUV, rolling coal and throwing out their laptop and phone every couple of years.
The modules are easily replaceable to deal with failure or changing needs without buying a completely new device.
If your needs ever change to require you plugging in more than 4 things, will need to buy a new device. A new device like the new Framework 16, with 6 entire ports.
There is no reason they couldn’t have gone with a single IO board with all of the ports they offer included. That can be replaced just as easily as the dongles. That would be a better solution.
i would generally recommend XFS over ext4 for anything where a CoW filesystem isn’t needed. in my experience, it performs better than ext4 at most workloads, and still supports some nifty features like reflink copies if you want them.
Very cool. I’ve done similar layouts but not so far as creating my own highlighting and keywords. Tbh, I prefer pen and paper for my “real life” stuff as I don’t want to be so tied to the computer/phone. But for work, where I’ll be at the computer anyway, I might steal some of these ideas.
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