Excellent news, can't wait to play with the new firmware. I will echo the Fedora 35 recommendation from the article. Ran a liveusb of it for a week or so on this laptop and it was buttery smooth. All components that in the past I had mixed experiences with (wayland, pipewire) just work.
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#12Side note: the language selection is stupid on the website. No, I'm not from Germany, and I don't speak German even if it's the closest country to me that you sell laptops in. Also, it's a bad practice to associate flags with languages. Or to give options that don't work after you select them. Otherwise, very nice news!
They don't have a language selector, they have a region selector which sets the appropriate currency, VAT (presumably), and also language, yes. It's an entirely appropriate usage of flags.
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#13Side note: the language selection is stupid on the website. No, I'm not from Germany, and I don't speak German even if it's the closest country to me that you sell laptops in. Also, it's a bad practice to associate flags with languages. Or to give options that don't work after you select them. Otherwise, very nice news!
I agree that flag != language (British Union flag for English being a prime example), but what is the next best alternative?
Anything but the flag.
Why not use full language names?
I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that flag != language (British Union flag for English being a prime example), but what is the next best alternative?
Anything but the flag. Why not use full language names? I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions.
> I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions.
I'm not disagreeing with your general point, but I'm curious: What language is over a thousand years old and still recognizably the same language?
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#15I wish I could get one without Windows
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#16I love these guys. I sincerely hope that they are successful and stick around. Keep up the good work!
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#17I wish I could get one without Windows
You can
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anything but the flag. Why not use full language names? I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions.
> I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions. I'm not disagreeing with your general point, but I'm curious: What language is over a thousand years old and still recognizably the same language?
Icelandic and old norse perhaps
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#19What is the reason behind closed firmware? I understand that wifi devices may operate out of the certification depending on what the firmware does, but other devices... why do they have closed firmwares?
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#20I wish I could get one without Windows
You can even get one without a drive