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* Palm detection: disable the trackpad, use the trackpoint like a boss. * Display: did you have the WQHD IPS option? Did you calibrate it on Linux using Displa
by pimeys 9y ago
* Palm detection: disable the trackpad, use the trackpoint like a boss.
* Display: did you have the WQHD IPS option? Did you calibrate it on Linux using DisplayCal and a calibrator, such as Datacolor Spyder? Mine (T25) is really nice even though it got some negative reviews. Doing a calibration really fixed lots of issues.
* External monitors: I'm using i3-gaps and xrandr setup, but can't really help because most of the time I don't need an external monitor with my laptop.
Linux is such a no-brainer for me as a development OS that there is no going back to OSX or Windows. A tiling window manager, minimal installation of software and the magic combo of Emacs + st + Firefox is a deal braker for me.
- anothergoogler 9y ago* See my note about the trackpoint ... it's sort of terrible now. Matter of taste, granted. * Yep. Never got good results. * Yep, the issue was not with display layout (I did configure with arandr and then xrandr directly, but that had more to do with some distros supporting old pre-display config Xfce). And yep, agreed, that's why I'm just using a desktop tower now. I'm not saying the issues I experienced are truly intractable, but I've been using desktop Linux at a low level for a while now and got to the point where I threw up my hands... ymmv.
- borplk 9y ago> Emacs + st + Firefox What's "st"?
- grzm 9y agoMy money's on Simple Terminal: https://st.suckless.org https://st.suckless.org