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Would the touchpad be usable for precise design work (e.g. working with pen tools/bezier curves in vector programs)?
I am not sure. I almost never do anything graphical, and I mainly work from the keyboard.
Why do people regard the fn position as right or wrong? Especially if you come from Apple clearly lenovo does it "right". Isn't it all about flavor? Although.. Can't we all agree putting fn right to space would be right?
My preference is control next to space, like command is for Macs. Luckily this remapping is easy with XKB settings.
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I'm curious if most of your issues were related to Pure OS. And if that's the case.. why ship with it installed? Overall I'm not a fan of these additional spins of linux. System76 does this too with PopOS. Our experiences are nearly polar opposite and the only difference I can detect is the OS. I can say that the bluetooth works as expected (currently using a mouse). There is a bit of configuration that had to be don…
I tried booting Ubuntu on it, similar problems. What model do you have?
I bought the base model then bought upgrades separate - 16GB of RAM, 1TB NVMe, and 2TB SSD.
I suppose it's possible you got a lemon, but unfortunate as these things should be tested intently.
I own one of these as my personal laptop. I pretty much agree with this review. Unless you care about more niche things like coreboot, there is nothing really special about the laptop. There is nothing really bad about it, either. It meets my practical needs, and I am happy to support the limited market of more-"free" hardware. I have not tried to use PureOS. As soon as I received it, I tried to install Qubes OS, but…
I installed it. Apart from the fact that windows bars and menu are still too big for low resolution, debian is so good, light and fast.
I have a librem 13v2, too. While I like it from an idealistic point of view - in terms of hardware build quality the current generation does just not get anywhere near a macbook pro. Maybe the next generation can close this gap further. As long as it is that big it cannot become my main device.
Help my third-world a$s that can't afford anything more than my current 2009 Dell with broken hinges.
Thank you!
I have a librem 13v2, too. While I like it from an idealistic point of view - in terms of hardware build quality the current generation does just not get anywhere near a macbook pro. Maybe the next generation can close this gap further. As long as it is that big it cannot become my main device.
Hey, if you are not using your Librem 13v2 then I'll happily take it off your hands. Help my third-world a$s that can't afford anything more than my current 2009 Dell with broken hinges. Thank you!
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#what-systems-are-compatible-w...
Pretty much the only option today with open source firmware is Marvell's ARM. And they recently bought Cavium with their ThunderX2 server grade CPU. Hope soon we'll have it.
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I left mine in because it it only knocked a few quid off and very occasionally I might need them. Both disabled in the BIOS and I taped over the camera though.
Camera taped over obviously it's unusable. Do you trust a Lenovo BIOS to truly disable the microphone?
At a certain point you just have to trade one thing for another, frankly my phone worries me more.
I'm currently running a Librem 13 as well. I came from my modded x230 (FHD display mod, coreboot, upgraded speakers). Mostly it's been a great experience. Like the author I also miss the trackpoint. Between the author and I, I think we cover most of the mainline OSes you'd see on these machines (debian and arch). I'm running Manjaro (xfce) with no issues. In total though the Librem 13 was about $300 more expensive th…
I'm probably not ready to replace it yet; it ends up being a terminal more than anything else and the performance is fine for where it's at. But... every now and then when I'm browsing, it'll slow to a crawl, and I pine for the fjords/something newer.
I've been holding back partly because it's still difficult to get more than 16GiB of RAM easily, but: is the Skylake-based Purism 13 a large or incremental step up in performance?
I'm currently running a Librem 13 as well. I came from my modded x230 (FHD display mod, coreboot, upgraded speakers). Mostly it's been a great experience. Like the author I also miss the trackpoint. Between the author and I, I think we cover most of the mainline OSes you'd see on these machines (debian and arch). I'm running Manjaro (xfce) with no issues. In total though the Librem 13 was about $300 more expensive th…
I've got a very similar setup, except with a T430s rather than an X230 (and no new speakers, even though that's probably the thing I hate the most). I'm probably not ready to replace it yet; it ends up being a terminal more than anything else and the performance is fine for where it's at. But... every now and then when I'm browsing, it'll slow to a crawl, and I pine for the fjords/something newer. I've been holding b…
With the Librem 13 I do get 6-10 hours depending on work load.