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System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by psanford »

Brakenshire wrote: post #211
psanford wrote: post #209

Man I wish System76 or Framework or someone else could make hardware as nice as Apple. I just ordered an M2 Air which I will be primarily running Linux on. I'm replacing my Lenovo T480s (which was a great laptop) because I want _nice_ hardware. There are just so few options that even come close to competing with Apple.

Does Linux work well on those M chip Apple laptops?

Based on the progress Asahi Linux has made in the last year, I expect linux to be a reasonable option (for folks who are comfortable with a Linux installer) within the next 12 months.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by toastal »

nicce wrote: post #217
toastal wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's plenty of good competition, just none of those options come with Linux—and as we saw with the Lenovo news yesterday, it's getting less friendly to install a FOSS OS.

Lenovo news was just a click bait which meant nothing. You can install FOSS OS as well as 5 years ago.

Yes and no. A lot of folks would be afraid to fiddle with their BIOS settings. Reading that step could scare some users off from trying—especially the sound of “disable ‘secure boot’”—but it's nothing a future Linux user should be scared of.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by stonewareslord »

sneak wrote: post #197
ptspts wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm explicitly looking for laptops with full HD display resolution, not more. I prefer the crisp pixels of low-resolution bitmap fonts.

This seems to be a tradition in the linux-laptop world. "1080p ought to be enough for anyone!" Use a 13" 4k for a few weeks and try to go back. Actual high-dpi screens are where it's at.

What a tiring trope. I use a high resolution macbook for work and a 1366x768 13 inch laptop for personal use. Like OP, I greatly prefer the font blockiness the latter provides especially in terminals.

And yes, I've tried smooth fonts and FixedSys/Less Perfect DOS-VGA on both and prefer blocky ones every time. High res screens love to use smoothing and subpixel rendering and I very much prefer none of it.

Edit: point being if you switch to high res displays, you won't always like it more

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by rcv »

jmondi wrote: post #150

I had this laptop, but ultimately replaced it with a 14” M1 Max. Some thoughts: - The screen is so much worse, in every way, than a MacBook. A “low resolution” (more like, not high dpi) matte screen vs the M1 screen, there is no comparison. When I first got this machine, my eyes would have to adjust to the screen, and it felt so blurry compared to my works retina Touch Bar Mac - PopOS is great! It is definitely one o…

I have a 17" Oryx Pro that I've been using as my daily driver for work. It's basically a luggable, but I mostly love it.

The thing I really miss from my old Apple laptop though is rock-solid suspend behavior. I feel like I can leave my Macbook closed for a week, and it will barely lose any battery life. When I bring home my System76 and leave it in my bag over the weekend, it will always be dead by Monday morning.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by JasonFruit »

mackal wrote: post #173
jmondi wrote: post #150

I had this laptop, but ultimately replaced it with a 14” M1 Max. Some thoughts: - The screen is so much worse, in every way, than a MacBook. A “low resolution” (more like, not high dpi) matte screen vs the M1 screen, there is no comparison. When I first got this machine, my eyes would have to adjust to the screen, and it felt so blurry compared to my works retina Touch Bar Mac - PopOS is great! It is definitely one o…

It should be noted that jmondi review is talking about the previous model. The one the article is talking about hasn't been out long enough for his post to be about lemp11. That doesn't mean it's changed enough that it's not still valid, but it was a different model of the Lemur Pro (likely lemp10)

I only now realized that lemp10, with regard to my laptop, refers to LEMur Pro and not Duncan Lemp. I had far too high hopes.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by hedora »

adsteel_ wrote: post #130

One design choice I love here is having the track pad centered on home row, instead of centered on the laptop body. Lenovo has the same orientation. I recently had to switch back to a body centered track pad for work and now I'm aware of the contortions my right hand has to perform in order to type while also resting on the laptop. It slows me down and increases typos. For anyone who types with all 10 fingers, a home…

I agree that the track pad should be centered under the home row, but it is just as important to me that the home row be centered under the screen!

If you look at the top down picture of the keyboard above "tech specs", you'll see that this laptop fails on both accounts. :-(

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by tourist2d »

hedora wrote: post #204
shalmanese wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's impossible to generalize across a broad range of use because each person's needs are different and non-negotiable. We've had plenty of examples of totally tech illiterate people using linux with zero problems since 1999 but they're totally irrelevant because they happen to be the people who are on the narrow set of rails that don't touch linux's rough edges. To make a convincing case, you have to move beyond ane…

Can you name one thing that a NOOB-friendly Linux requires the command line for that a technically illiterate user can accomplish in MacOS / Windows?

Installing NVIDIA drivers?

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by hedora »

johnvaluk wrote: post #195
isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #127

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How the hell are people able to work on a laptop for a long time? Laptops are incredibly non-ergonomic, you are bound to develop neck or back pain.

I learned from experience that spending years at the same chair and desk can do even more damage. As part of my rehab, I switched to a laptop so I could move from couch to chair to table to standing desk easily. I also highly recommend using a motorized adjustable desk, now that goods ones are easily available and affordable. A perfectly customized height for sitting or standing is just a button push away, and I can…

There are manual height adjustable desks that can be set for near zero resistance moving up and down. They have a brake and an adjustable tension spring. I think those are the best ones. The only advantage (some) motorized ones have is the ability to remember presets.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by hedora »

minimaul wrote: post #64
dugmartin wrote: post #46

I'm wondering with the (permanent?) switch to work from home if laptop sales will go down. I've replaced both my personal and work laptops with System76 Meerkat mini PCs both running stock Unbuntu using Regolith for the desktop environment ( https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat ). They are stacked on top of each other on my desk and take up next to no space. I work from home (and have since 1999) and don't travel fo…

OOI, why System76 for those? As far as I can tell they're just off-the-shelf NUCs, and System76 are ~$200 more for a sensible spec than buying the NUC, some RAM and a good NVMe drive yourself. How do you find them for noise? I had an 8th gen NUC that was unbearable under high CPU load - I replaced it with a slightly larger ASRock DeskMini X300 with Ryzen 5750GE and Noctua AM4 cooler that is silent, even under full lo…

I'd pay the extra $200 if the manufacturer warranted Linux compatibility for 10 years (with a checklist of things like wake from sleep and connect to WiFi/monitor that work > 99.9% of the the time, or some other SLA).

It would also have to be silent.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Post by rambambram »

dijit wrote: post #126
jeroenhd wrote: post #102

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I don't see the appeal of working in a café. It's like a noisy office, except you need to keep paying for your coffee. Might as well commute to the office where the coffee is part of the deal in my opinion.

The difference (for me) with a cafe is that it enables body doubling[0] without the threat of interruption. So, for me, with my ADHD addled brain, I can be quite productive. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/06/01/virtual-b...

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