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The Spectre laptops are pretty dang nice and are Linux-friendly. The dark-and-copper one looks fantastic, too. I'd be using one right now, instead of a Thinkpad

The Spectre laptops are pretty dang nice and are Linux-friendly. The dark-and-copper one looks fantastic, too. I'd be using one right now, instead of a Thinkpad T480, if they didn't put Ctrl and Fn in the wrong places. (My hands just can't re-learn that one.)

foobarbecue 7y ago
When did Fn become a thing? I still haven't gotten used to it.
- paranoidrobot 7y ago
  Pretty sure they've been a thing for at least 20 years now, if not longer.
paranoidrobot 7y ago
I have to second this - I got a late 2016 Spectre X360 and it's been my daily driver since. Though I have to say that the ability to open it up is less than ideal. Because of a leaky water bottle and a surprisingly waterproof bag I managed to soak my week-old laptop for about 12 hours. There's only two screws on the bottom, and they're covered by rubber feet. The problem is that only two of the four rubber feet are removable - removing the other two breaks a clip, meaning I had to superglue them back on. After drying it out over the forced-air vents of a server-room for a few days, it was a-ok.
m3gatr0n 7y ago
You can easily swap the functionality of the two keyboard keys in the BIOS settings of your laptop (you must do something like this: https://www.geek.com/chips/how-to-swap-the-fn-and-ctrl-keys-on-a-thinkpad-1117812/ https://www.geek.com/chips/how-to-swap-the-fn-and-ctrl-keys-...). The funny thing is that I am the only one in our company that did this, meaning that when a colleague tries to use my keyboard, they fail in 95% of the case. It's always funny to see this happen, but my colleagues get often fustrated. You have been warned ;)
- eropple 7y ago
  I tried this at the time. Mine lacked the option (the 2017 13" model). It was really frustrating.
stallmanite 7y ago
I suffer from a similarly idiotic keyboard. I think the name of the “Fn” key is quite appropriate. (As in this F ing key is where CTRL should be!)

foobarbecue 7y ago

When did Fn become a thing? I still haven't gotten used to it.

paranoidrobot 7y ago
Pretty sure they've been a thing for at least 20 years now, if not longer.

paranoidrobot 7y ago

I have to second this - I got a late 2016 Spectre X360 and it's been my daily driver since. Though I have to say that the ability to open it up is less than ideal. Because of a leaky water bottle and a surprisingly waterproof bag I managed to soak my week-old laptop for about 12 hours. There's only two screws on the bottom, and they're covered by rubber feet. The problem is that only two of the four rubber feet are removable - removing the other two breaks a clip, meaning I had to superglue them back on. After drying it out over the forced-air vents of a server-room for a few days, it was a-ok.

m3gatr0n 7y ago

You can easily swap the functionality of the two keyboard keys in the BIOS settings of your laptop (you must do something like this: https://www.geek.com/chips/how-to-swap-the-fn-and-ctrl-keys-on-a-thinkpad-1117812/ https://www.geek.com/chips/how-to-swap-the-fn-and-ctrl-keys-...). The funny thing is that I am the only one in our company that did this, meaning that when a colleague tries to use my keyboard, they fail in 95% of the case. It's always funny to see this happen, but my colleagues get often fustrated. You have been warned ;)

eropple 7y ago
I tried this at the time. Mine lacked the option (the 2017 13" model). It was really frustrating.

stallmanite 7y ago

I suffer from a similarly idiotic keyboard. I think the name of the “Fn” key is quite appropriate. (As in this F ing key is where CTRL should be!)