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As he said: “ I began looking for dockable tablets with USB-C and the ability to do Linux work on them while also having good battery life, and relatively pain

As he said: “ I began looking for dockable tablets with USB-C and the ability to do Linux work on them while also having good battery life, and relatively painless wifi and bluetooth. While there are some great preloaded Linux devices out there (e.g. Dell XPS, System76, Purism Librem) all either lacked a tablet mode, USB-C , or both. Macs lacked tablet mode, and also have been using a keyboard design recently that I don’t personally like very much.” None of the OOTB Linux laptops offered either a tablet mode, usb-c or both, same for the Mac. The clue was in the content.

bilekas 7y ago
Yeah I kinda get it now, but it's still a bit strange for me. I've never shopped for an OOTB linux laptop, nor do I understand why thats a requirement, gnome as supported tablet mode for years too. So was all a bit confusing what the relevance of those 'clues' where.
- x0054 7y ago
  Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works after an update, even if they have the skills. I can setup Linux on almost any HW, I choose not too, and use Mac and Windows instead because I have better things to do with my time. Out of the box hardware works out of the box and allows you to do something you actually enjoy. If you enjoy setting up and maintaining Linux, by all means, you should do so, but other people have other hobbies. Mind you, it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware, but if you buy first party hardware, that hard work is usually done by people who get paid to make it their full time “hobby” so I don’t have to. As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own.
  - bilekas 7y ago
    > Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works Cool, for starters, linux is not like that anymore, I remember setting up BSD from a copy from a magazine, that's not how it is today thank god so that point is as useless for this context. > it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware Ok; now we are loading full OS's up,(on obscure hardware?) bit of change of focus from your last comment. But whatever. Nobody in their working mind needs to load up a bootstraped OSX+n so unless you're a complete pirate who requires sketch, you better have a hook and an eye patch before i'll entertain your fallacy. Windows is super easy, maybe more than your mom, as we're all throwing ideas out?. Your last one is kinda too comical to make fun of.. > As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own. Yeah, to each their own. But, we're talking about one article, one very specific article, actually, we are again talking about 1 article. Not examples. But, this was fun. Moron. I'll be sure to take all your comments/nonsense with a glacier of salt. If you'd like some attention for your work, do something and share it, the OP had the balls to do write something and accept my criticism, where is yours ? You're a bit worse than that little shit i take after I've taken a shit.. The inconvenience.
  - jcranberry 7y ago
    Using linux doesn't mean spending time setting it up and maintaining it...at all. Not every distro is arch or gentoo. Plenty of people using linux have other hobbies, and certainly don't want to bother dealing excessively with configs and the like. Insinuating that people use Linux because it's 'cool looking' but less productive for writing software is patently absurd.
Razengan 7y ago
> I began looking for dockable tablets with USB-C and the ability to do Linux work on them while also having good battery life An iPad Pro with keyboard remoting into a Linux system?
- shmoogy 7y ago
  I use an iPad pro sometimes and an iPad mini other. I greatly appreciate it over a full laptop 95% of the time. Mostly working VIM or VSCode server.
AgloeDreams 7y ago
...so he wants a Pixelbook? EDIT: Realized he had a pixel slate first, I felt as if the newer releases fixed BT.
- kevingadd 7y ago
  And he tried one, and bounced off because of problems with chrome os
bebna 7y ago
Yeah, but most surfaces do run Linux,why not dual boot? I worked with Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 for a year now just to understand how one could setup windows as a good workspace for my colleges. And I do have to say even with the vastly more performant WSL2, docker is slow and annoying if you are used to Linux docker or xampp under windows.

bilekas 7y ago

Yeah I kinda get it now, but it's still a bit strange for me. I've never shopped for an OOTB linux laptop, nor do I understand why thats a requirement, gnome as supported tablet mode for years too. So was all a bit confusing what the relevance of those 'clues' where.

x0054 7y ago
Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works after an update, even if they have the skills. I can setup Linux on almost any HW, I choose not too, and use Mac and Windows instead because I have better things to do with my time. Out of the box hardware works out of the box and allows you to do something you actually enjoy. If you enjoy setting up and maintaining Linux, by all means, you should do so, but other people have other hobbies. Mind you, it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware, but if you buy first party hardware, that hard work is usually done by people who get paid to make it their full time “hobby” so I don’t have to. As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own.
- bilekas 7y ago
  > Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works Cool, for starters, linux is not like that anymore, I remember setting up BSD from a copy from a magazine, that's not how it is today thank god so that point is as useless for this context. > it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware Ok; now we are loading full OS's up,(on obscure hardware?) bit of change of focus from your last comment. But whatever. Nobody in their working mind needs to load up a bootstraped OSX+n so unless you're a complete pirate who requires sketch, you better have a hook and an eye patch before i'll entertain your fallacy. Windows is super easy, maybe more than your mom, as we're all throwing ideas out?. Your last one is kinda too comical to make fun of.. > As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own. Yeah, to each their own. But, we're talking about one article, one very specific article, actually, we are again talking about 1 article. Not examples. But, this was fun. Moron. I'll be sure to take all your comments/nonsense with a glacier of salt. If you'd like some attention for your work, do something and share it, the OP had the balls to do write something and accept my criticism, where is yours ? You're a bit worse than that little shit i take after I've taken a shit.. The inconvenience.
- jcranberry 7y ago
  Using linux doesn't mean spending time setting it up and maintaining it...at all. Not every distro is arch or gentoo. Plenty of people using linux have other hobbies, and certainly don't want to bother dealing excessively with configs and the like. Insinuating that people use Linux because it's 'cool looking' but less productive for writing software is patently absurd.

Razengan 7y ago

> I began looking for dockable tablets with USB-C and the ability to do Linux work on them while also having good battery life An iPad Pro with keyboard remoting into a Linux system?

shmoogy 7y ago
I use an iPad pro sometimes and an iPad mini other. I greatly appreciate it over a full laptop 95% of the time. Mostly working VIM or VSCode server.

AgloeDreams 7y ago

...so he wants a Pixelbook? EDIT: Realized he had a pixel slate first, I felt as if the newer releases fixed BT.

kevingadd 7y ago
And he tried one, and bounced off because of problems with chrome os

bebna 7y ago

Yeah, but most surfaces do run Linux,why not dual boot? I worked with Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 for a year now just to understand how one could setup windows as a good workspace for my colleges. And I do have to say even with the vastly more performant WSL2, docker is slow and annoying if you are used to Linux docker or xampp under windows.