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I own one of these as my personal laptop. I pretty much agree with this review. Unless you care about more niche things like coreboot, there is nothing really s

I own one of these as my personal laptop. I pretty much agree with this review. Unless you care about more niche things like coreboot, there is nothing really special about the laptop. There is nothing really bad about it, either. It meets my practical needs, and I am happy to support the limited market of more-"free" hardware. I have not tried to use PureOS. As soon as I received it, I tried to install Qubes OS, but I was not successful. I ended up installing Debian stable, which has been my OS of choice for many years. I have not had any hardware support issues so far on Debian.

stamps 8y ago
What had you hung up on Qubes? I used it for some time on my librem and it worked well, but I generally needed better Windows in a VM support for work.
- oftenwrong 8y ago
  After the installation, it would not boot from the drive. I tried to reinstall, and it still didn't work. I wasn't in the mood to troubleshoot it, so I just gave up and installed Debian. It was likely I would have switched to Debian later on, anyway.
deltron3030 8y ago
Would the touchpad be usable for precise design work (e.g. working with pen tools/bezier curves in vector programs)?
- stamps 8y ago
  This review talks about using a Wacom tablet with it: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article341/review-purism-librem13-laptop https://www.davidrevoy.com/article341/review-purism-librem13... I find the touch pad to be accurate and usable on Manjaro, but I only use it to move around the terminal, IDE, and VMs.
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- oftenwrong 8y ago
  I am not sure. I almost never do anything graphical, and I mainly work from the keyboard.
  - deltron3030 8y ago
    Does highlighting text (click, dragging the cursor over text) work well? That's all it needs to do, point click, and be able to control the dragging.
    - mattl 8y ago
      In my experience frequently not. I couldn’t highlight text in terminals sometimes. And the | key isn’t functional without a systemd patch.
jokoon 8y ago
I recently discovered debian offers netinstaller images with nonfree wifi firmwares included in the image. It still fits in an USB stick. I installed it. Apart from the fact that windows bars and menu are still too big for low resolution, debian is so good, light and fast.

stamps 8y ago

What had you hung up on Qubes? I used it for some time on my librem and it worked well, but I generally needed better Windows in a VM support for work.

oftenwrong 8y ago
After the installation, it would not boot from the drive. I tried to reinstall, and it still didn't work. I wasn't in the mood to troubleshoot it, so I just gave up and installed Debian. It was likely I would have switched to Debian later on, anyway.

deltron3030 8y ago

Would the touchpad be usable for precise design work (e.g. working with pen tools/bezier curves in vector programs)?

stamps 8y ago
This review talks about using a Wacom tablet with it: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article341/review-purism-librem13-laptop https://www.davidrevoy.com/article341/review-purism-librem13... I find the touch pad to be accurate and usable on Manjaro, but I only use it to move around the terminal, IDE, and VMs.
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oftenwrong 8y ago
I am not sure. I almost never do anything graphical, and I mainly work from the keyboard.
- deltron3030 8y ago
  Does highlighting text (click, dragging the cursor over text) work well? That's all it needs to do, point click, and be able to control the dragging.
  - mattl 8y ago
    In my experience frequently not. I couldn’t highlight text in terminals sometimes. And the | key isn’t functional without a systemd patch.

jokoon 8y ago

I recently discovered debian offers netinstaller images with nonfree wifi firmwares included in the image. It still fits in an USB stick. I installed it. Apart from the fact that windows bars and menu are still too big for low resolution, debian is so good, light and fast.