Chromebooks are perfect, and it's unfortunate that the open source community remains in denial, still clutching their moribund "Linux Desktop" instead of stealing ChromeOS and putting a solid distro directly under it.
I love my GPD Micro PC
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Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#112At a previous job, I was the engineering manager for a new neo-bank and was on call 24/7 for it. I have a beefy Lenovo P52 that I hated carrying around and leaving in my car lest it get stolen. So I got a GPD Pocket. It fit very well into my back pocket. Not only did it work great for emergency situations (I ran Ubuntu MATE as well) when I needed to SSH into machines, check stuff on Datadog, edit code to make a quick…
... Is that a trackpoint on it??
It's a "shut up and take my money" system for me; I've dream of a netbook/micropc with trackpoint and keyboard taking as much space as it can for about 12-13 years now. Thx!
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#113Chromebooks are perfect, and it's unfortunate that the open source community remains in denial, still clutching their moribund "Linux Desktop" instead of stealing ChromeOS and putting a solid distro directly under it.
What's moribund about the linux desktop?
Millions of people use one, including myself. Is that not enough?
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#114I'm quite looking forward to the GPD Win Max 2 coming out next month. It's exactly the device I've been wanting for a couple decades.
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#115the keyboard is so small, why not just use your cell phone? yes your on screen keyboard is far from ideal but it has already built some muscle memory. typing on a tiny keyboard with a non-standard layout is just painful.
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#116I'd rather just have a good linux phone than have to carry around a phone and PC separately. n900, ye will be missed
I do miss my n900 best portable computing experience I ever had.
I think the security model or rather lack of a security model, would have done it in in the end even without Microsoft's help.
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#117the keyboard is so small, why not just use your cell phone? yes your on screen keyboard is far from ideal but it has already built some muscle memory. typing on a tiny keyboard with a non-standard layout is just painful.
Eh. Not a fan of the small keyboard on the GPD, but I'd take that over my phone's keyboard any day, especially for programing.
I have 10 years' of muscle memory for on-screen keyboards, and I still find them absolutely painful to use for anything other than a few words. When sending text messages, I use voice transcription (with the awkward "exclamation point", "newline", etc.).
If I were to use this, I'd set it up on some surface and just 2-finger type it like old-timey authors did on their typewriters.
And, FWIW, 20 years ago I jerry-rigged together a few gender benders and a null modem adapter so I could use my Palm Pilot to interface with VT100 terminals. Using Grafiti to send control characters and navigate TUIs was... interesting.
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#118the keyboard is so small, why not just use your cell phone? yes your on screen keyboard is far from ideal but it has already built some muscle memory. typing on a tiny keyboard with a non-standard layout is just painful.
Neither are ideal, but I'm far faster on my GPD Win 2 than my phone - especially when in a terminal.
Tactile keys allow me to build a stronger muscle memory than zero-feedback touchscreens will ever let me.
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#119At a previous job, I was the engineering manager for a new neo-bank and was on call 24/7 for it. I have a beefy Lenovo P52 that I hated carrying around and leaving in my car lest it get stolen. So I got a GPD Pocket. It fit very well into my back pocket. Not only did it work great for emergency situations (I ran Ubuntu MATE as well) when I needed to SSH into machines, check stuff on Datadog, edit code to make a quick…
... Is that a trackpoint on it?? It's a "shut up and take my money" system for me; I've dream of a netbook/micropc with trackpoint and keyboard taking as much space as it can for about 12-13 years now. Thx!
Looks like a power button to me.
Re: I love my GPD Micro PC
#120Chromebooks are perfect, and it's unfortunate that the open source community remains in denial, still clutching their moribund "Linux Desktop" instead of stealing ChromeOS and putting a solid distro directly under it.
What's moribund about the linux desktop? Millions of people use one, including myself. Is that not enough?
The open source user interface is, was, and always will be the web page.
Desktop Linux is another attempt to ape monolithic corporate desktops. And most of the people using Desktop Linux just have a web browser (and maybe an xterm) maximized on it all day anyway.