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Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by bjakubski »

prmoustache wrote: post #46
dajonker wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No ANSI keyboard might be a deal breaker for my muscle memory and external keyboards (mechanical and MX keys that I had to import from the US because Logitech only sells ISO in the EU)

Why do you need a "specific keyboard" if your muscle memory is there? Just map it to whatever works for you. I am typing all the time in us alt international on various physical keyboards that have printed buttons in spanish qwerty, swiss french qwertz and plain ansi us keyboards. It is only a problem for those that have very little experience/use of the keyboard.

It is not possible to "just map": Enter key has completely different shape and size and pushes backslash/pipe key to different row. I'm used to ANSI with single row Enter and I don't seem to be able to switch to ISO (in the past I was forced to order and replace keyboard in my laptop because of that)

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

#62

Post by bflesch »

Amazing. I own the Gen2 and am very happy with it. Good to see that now you don't need the stupid dock any more in order to run multiple screens, but you can do it via the 2x USB-C and the HDMI with the new model.

I can only recommend this laptop.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

#64

Post by Darmody »

chme wrote: post #53

Strange, for a company, advertising to the Linux community, to offer only Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs, where you actually have to taint your kernel/userspace with proprietary software in order to use it.

There are basically no laptops with AMD GPUs. Why? I don't know. I think in the last months I've only seen one and I don't remember it as a laptop someone would buy.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

#65

Post by Darmody »

ekianjo wrote: post #54
Klonoar wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a literal drop in the bucket. It's like a mattress: you spend enough time on it that it's worth paying the money and moving on.

> It is a literal drop in the bucket. That's a very first world comment

And in some first world countries that still means the 10% of your annual income.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

#66

Post by prmoustache »

Cu3PO42 wrote: post #56
prmoustache wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you need a "specific keyboard" if your muscle memory is there? Just map it to whatever works for you. I am typing all the time in us alt international on various physical keyboards that have printed buttons in spanish qwerty, swiss french qwertz and plain ansi us keyboards. It is only a problem for those that have very little experience/use of the keyboard.

Because muscle memory breaks if the physical layout of the keys is different. The parent is used to ANSI and might hit enter where there's a different key on ISO. I am used to ISO and my layout uses that key as a modifier and is barely usable on ANSI, simply because moving my pinky to the key above enter is uncomfortable for me.

We are much more adaptive than that. Among all my computers keyboards at home I have 4 different shape of the enter key and among the 2 that have a similar ANSI shape they don't have nearly the same size.

You'll always have your favorite physical layout but muscle memory can also adapt. The same way I don't ride my mountain bikes the same way I ride my road bikes I am naturally and unconsciously adapting to the different keyboards based on how they feel to my hands.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

#67

Post by prmoustache »

bjakubski wrote: post #61
prmoustache wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you need a "specific keyboard" if your muscle memory is there? Just map it to whatever works for you. I am typing all the time in us alt international on various physical keyboards that have printed buttons in spanish qwerty, swiss french qwertz and plain ansi us keyboards. It is only a problem for those that have very little experience/use of the keyboard.

It is not possible to "just map": Enter key has completely different shape and size and pushes backslash/pipe key to different row. I'm used to ANSI with single row Enter and I don't seem to be able to switch to ISO (in the past I was forced to order and replace keyboard in my laptop because of that)

See my other reply above, we are much more adaptive than that.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by qwytw »

chme wrote: post #53

Strange, for a company, advertising to the Linux community, to offer only Laptops with Nvidia dGPUs, where you actually have to taint your kernel/userspace with proprietary software in order to use it.

That's pretty dogmatic. I don't see much issue with proprietary drivers (even if it's not ideal how Linux handles that) if they actually worked properly, which unfortunately they don't..

Not that this is relevant for this laptop.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

#69

Post by qwqetyr »

tormeh wrote: post #36
latentcall wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn’t be able to do it until Asahi Linux is totally done. Paying 1.5k for a laptop that doesn’t respect you is quite a big ask. They’d have to pay me to use Mac OS, as someone would have to pay me to use Windows. I’m glad these options exist such as Tuxedo.

Got a Mac for work. I’m sure I’m holding it wrong, but to me it just doesn’t measure up to Linux/Gnome. Of particular annoyance is that Mac will just ignore my scroll wheel input sometimes. I suspect it’s a heuristics thing aimed at trackpads. Lots of other small things where Mac doesn’t measure up. And Homebrew is inferior to most Linux package managers. Mac is very focused on the use-case of GUI-only, trackpad-only…

> will just ignore my scroll wheel input sometimes.

The other day I was trying to set the scroll speed (and have it consistent for all apps) on KDE and it was quite a struggle. AFAIK it just works on Gnome/Wayland but having to chose between something as basic as this and using a DE the UX of which I personally find slightly repulsive (at least in default config) doesn't seem ideal.

Re: Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3

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Post by qwytw »

ekianjo wrote: post #8
ArtemZ wrote: post #7

After I experienced ARM chips in macbooks x86 laptops are no more for me.

Happy paying 3x more?

You're are more than right about memory/storage upgrades but otherwise Macs seem to be priced very competitively considering what they offer.
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