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Re: Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

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Post by INTPenis »

emptysongglass wrote: post #96
INTPenis wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what that means. I want ÅÄÖ and/or ÅÆØ on my keyboard out of box. I don't want to use stickers, I don't want to guess, I don't want to engrave things. I do really want the Framework 13 though, it seems a perfect size.

I mean no offense, but are you not a touch typer? Labels are for training the fingers in the early stages of typing but devs should not be looking down once they've trained their fingers, which shouldn't take more than a year of practice.

I don't know what that means.

I can tell you that I've been typing since my first c64 in 1989.

I once placed in the top 20 of typeracer by using a basic apple keyboard I found lying around at work.

I know how to type very well.

I still want a proper nordic keyboard on my laptop.

Re: Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

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Post by MrDresden »

INTPenis wrote: post #101
emptysongglass wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean no offense, but are you not a touch typer? Labels are for training the fingers in the early stages of typing but devs should not be looking down once they've trained their fingers, which shouldn't take more than a year of practice.

I don't know what that means. I can tell you that I've been typing since my first c64 in 1989. I once placed in the top 20 of typeracer by using a basic apple keyboard I found lying around at work. I know how to type very well. I still want a proper nordic keyboard on my laptop.

Icelander here, but not a keyboard expert.

As far as I know there are mainly two (but there may be more out there) keyboard standards, ANSI and ISO, that define the size and proportions of the physical keys.

Icelandic keyboard layouts for instance use ISO, and so what I meant with my previous comment was that other Nordic layouts would too.

In that sense, Framework has what you need.

But labels are a different story, so in that regard they do not.

Re: Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

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Post by RealStickman_ »

burntsushi wrote: post #29
IntelMiner wrote: post #8

At the risk of sounding negative I have to dissent. Linux on the Framework is great * if* you use GNOME or KDE. Those two DE's specifically support Fractional scaling in Wayland the best I've been using XFCE for the better part of 15 years meanwhile. Its Wayland support is a permanent unfortunate "work-in-progress" (apparently they only have two full-time developers for the whole project?) and I'd assume many other l…

I've been using X11 on my Framework laptop for years. No desktop environment at all. Just my regular old school window manager[1]. No KDE or GNOME. But also no XFCE. The only thing I had to do to get scaling working for me was set two environment variables[2]. I was indeed worried about this when I bought the laptop. Prior to this, I avoided anything with resolutions higher than 1920x1200. But it turned out that ever…

I'm using i3wm and maybe I've been doing scaling wrong, but I've only needed to set Xft.dpi and one setting in Polybar (because it doesn't read Xft.dpi) to scale everything toba comfortable size.

https://gitea.exu.li/exu/configs/src/branch/main/arch-config...

Re: Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

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Post by emptysongglass »

INTPenis wrote: post #101
emptysongglass wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean no offense, but are you not a touch typer? Labels are for training the fingers in the early stages of typing but devs should not be looking down once they've trained their fingers, which shouldn't take more than a year of practice.

I don't know what that means. I can tell you that I've been typing since my first c64 in 1989. I once placed in the top 20 of typeracer by using a basic apple keyboard I found lying around at work. I know how to type very well. I still want a proper nordic keyboard on my laptop.

Like the other commenter wrote: there's two standards. If you know how to touch-type, just set the virtual layout to whatever language you want: your fingers already know the rest.

Re: Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

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Post by DigitalGoose »

kelnos wrote: post #57
IntelMiner wrote: post #8

At the risk of sounding negative I have to dissent. Linux on the Framework is great * if* you use GNOME or KDE. Those two DE's specifically support Fractional scaling in Wayland the best I've been using XFCE for the better part of 15 years meanwhile. Its Wayland support is a permanent unfortunate "work-in-progress" (apparently they only have two full-time developers for the whole project?) and I'd assume many other l…

> I've been using XFCE for the better part of 15 years meanwhile. Nice, nearly 20 years for me. > (apparently they only have two full-time developers for the whole project?) We actually have zero full time developers. I'm probably the closest thing to a full-time developer as I have a lot of free time on my hands these days, but even then I don't work on Xfce enough to call it full time. And we only have two people w…

> I'm probably the closest thing to a full-time developer...

I just want to say thanks, your work is very much appreciated!

> I run Xfce on a Framework 13

Do you do much gaming or 3D stuff? I have a Framework 13 AMD running NixOS (Kernel 6.6 and BIOS 3.03) and its performance is great in desktop apps, but simple games seem to really work it. And by "simple" I'm talking about Everquest Titanium that runs smooth as butter via PoL on an i3-7100U (Xubuntu 18.04), and also Wobbly Life that runs happily on a Lenovo with Ryzen 4500U (Windows 11). Both of those games cause my FW 13 to spin fans up like crazy after a couple mins and sound like it's going to take-off. I'm trying to figure out if I'm missing something from my NixOS setup, because I feel like its performance should be better.

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