System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock

Post by DiabloD3 » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 2:41 AM UTC

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It's a 15" screen! For 4K to even begin to make sense, you need a 40" diagonal, and with your face about a foot away from it. (For a more detailed explanation, ask a local fifth grader.)

40" diagonal seems a bit extreme. I think my 27" 4k display is perfect. My dad has slightly worse eyes and prefers his 32" 4k display, which I find noticably grainier but perfectly serviceable.

Post by lathiat » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC

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As this thread is highlighting, in my experience there are two kinds of keyboard users. Those that love their numberpad, and those that never use it. There seems to rarely be people in the middle. On desktops it mostly doesn't matter because you can shift the keyboard over relative to the screen. On laptops this translates into people completely loathing or loving the laptop entirely :) Personally in the never use it…

> On desktops it mostly doesn't matter because you can shift the keyboard over relative to the screen. It does matter. The arrow key cluster and numpad take a lot of space, which means the left side of the keyboard (where asdf / your left hand are) and your mouse have to be very far from each other. This leads to either putting the keyboard's letter key section in the center, making your mouse be uncomfortably far to…

Post by jcelerier » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

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From what I could find, ripgrep is 40kloc... That means roughly 83 lines of code compiled per second. I'm sure there are languages on the PDP-11 (a 1.25 mhz machine) that compiled faster than that.

Uh... No. You're off by an order of magnitude. $ cargo vendor $ tokei vendor/ crates/ -t Rust -s code --exclude winapi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rust 1248 615700 493777 83201 38722 And 8 minutes for compiling ripgrep sounds crazy. My i3 Mac Min…

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

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It's oh so terrible isn't it? I feel like this is one of those flexible majority things that Nassim Taleb talks about [1]. The vast majority of people don't care one way or the other. There is a small minority who wants the numeric keypad and an even smaller minority that despises the numeric keypad and will never buy a laptop that includes one. For me, it's always been yet another selling point for the Macbook. [1]…

The trackpad is not centered. I'm the small minority that won't touch a laptop with an off centered trackpad. It's very uncomfortable for me as I use my right hand. Ideally manufacturers should make a large touch screen/surface that covers the entire area below the keyboard. We have the technology, it can be done.

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 7:58 PM UTC

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Agreed. The least they could do, if a numpad really is necessary, is put something of equal size on the left side. A macro pad would be novel, or even just a left numpad so that right-hand mouse users could enter numbers at the same time.

They could do what Apple did 20 years ago: Make them modular. You used to be able to pop the trackball out from the right side of the keyboard area, slide the keys to the right, and then re-insert the trackball into the left side. Do the same with a num pad, instead of a trackball. And for people who don't want the num pad, make available half-width blank inserts to occupy the space on both sides.