Mad lad installed KDE Neon. Weird choice, but okay!
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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Uses the calamares installer, comes with all neccessary tools and, above all, is the safest bet if you need all KDE components to work properly. Makes enough sense to me but I'm biased since it's my daily driver too π It's my first distro where genuinely so far "everything just works". I've had a much better experience than with stuff like Mint or Pop or whatever else people usually recommend.
It looks pretty cute. But holy shit the mouse on that thing looks awful to use.
What they kind of eyes do you people have? I mean, my phone screen is smaller but I'm not doing stuff I would normally do on a desktop or full size laptop.
I had better than 20x20 vision when they gave us eye-tests in high school and Iβve often gotten, βHoly shit, you can read that from here?β I always chose screen space over font-size even on small laptops but I recently had to dial it back a notch for the first time. The optometrists come for us all, eventually.
My vision still seems fine but it takes longer to adjust and focus. Like I have a digital clock I used to glance at to check the time and now I have to squint for a few seconds and wait. Itβs sort of like a phone camera auto-focus where it sorts things out but it used to be immediate.
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"Upon picking it up, you can feel the metal chassis has a surprising amount of weight to it."
A surprising amount of weight is exactly what I do not want to feel when picking up a micro laptop.
That being said, it's just a little under the weight of the new 12β surface pro. Pretty much any bag I have could easily fit a 12" laptop but I imagine it would be hard to get Linux to work well with the surface - especially the touch screen. Not to mention a pretty big price difference.
Either way, it's nice to see more options for small laptops! Maybe in a few years someone will start making small phones again.
I ended up falling into using a surface for my travel and it's been surprisingly good. I have surface pro 7+, and it's small enough to use on an airplane seat, has good battery life, a great screen, and can do some limited gaming. With an upgraded drive (1TB for $100) for movies and low end games it's a great little computer. They also run for 200-400 dollars on eBay.
I use a Lenovo nano and haven't looked back to my surface days. Has a touch screen and I really like it. Sounds like used surface market is good, but prices for new ones tend to be quite high. The 12 inch sounds really interesting to me though
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Thank you very much!
I need exactly something like that thing! :β -β D
Something I can just connect to a device to gather logs and don't need to care, that it's lying in the dirt for a few hours.
Currently I need to use my main laptop and I'm always anxious to get it destroyed. Either by dirt/dust or a careless worker in the warehouse.
So this thing seems to be just perfect for such tasks
Can't even express how happy and excited I am now, waiting for that sexy little thing to show up in my mail :β -β D