[HN Gopher] First Portless Ultrabook
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       First Portless Ultrabook
        
       Author : e2e4
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-02-02 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (craob.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (craob.com)
        
       | threshold wrote:
       | Looks really nice actually. Shame it's 13 inch just like
       | framework. That's just irritating to me I could never use it.
       | 
       | The other issue is Windows. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.
       | Ubuntu should be the default these days.
       | 
       | But, really nice all the same.
        
         | snackst99 wrote:
         | > Ubuntu should be the default these days.
         | 
         | I have had nothing but abysmal experiences with ubuntu on
         | desktops and laptops over the years. It's a combination of the
         | general jankiness of desktop linux and their poor design
         | choices. If Windows is lipstick on a pig, Ubuntu is a dress and
         | a leopard skin print handbag... on the pig. The pig doesn't
         | understand what's happening and it's even more annoyed.
         | 
         | There are many material reasons as to why (conventional)
         | desktop linux has never managed to make even the smallest dent
         | in market share. IMO and IME, failing to get above 5% of
         | desktop users has nothing to do with the Windows licensing
         | monopoly.
         | 
         | That said, I do think they should offer a license-less version
         | of the laptop - allowing people to maintain a free and libre
         | stack is incredibly important and an effort that I support.
         | 
         | e: i have expressed my issues with desktop linux before and
         | people always ask for examples, as if i was doing something
         | wrong or incompetently setting up my machine. My go to example
         | is this: I installed 20.04 towards the end of 2020. I installed
         | the nvidia graphics driver using ubuntu's built in driver
         | manager. Rebooted. Installed all updates. Rebooted. The machine
         | immediately locked up after starting the kernel, and was wedged
         | so severely that I couldn't even get recovery mode to start
         | (immediate crash). I actually contain the basic skillset to get
         | a boot console out on serial but... why put the effort in?
         | 
         | Whose fault was it? I don't know, but I expect the basic QA
         | such that when I use the built in tools to do minimal and
         | routine configuration to my computer, it doesn't destroy my
         | installation. This is probably the funniest example of my
         | desktop linux woes, but it is a long list and the majority of
         | examples are, in my opinion, extremely unreasonable for even
         | technical users to deal with.
        
       | skavi wrote:
       | How has a product that is nothing but a series of renders from an
       | unknown company garnered this much attention?
       | 
       | The headline seems custom designed to anger the Hacker News
       | crowd. Wouldn't a real product advertise it's thinness or
       | lightness rather than it's lack of ports?
        
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