I'm thinking about buying a StarBook Ultra by @starlabssystems and I'm wondering if someone here on the Fediverse (not related to StarLabs) owns one and could share some personal opinions and insights about it?

https://de.starlabs.systems/products/starbook-ultra

Besides regular office work, I do some content creation, 3D modelling, local AI stuff (just tinkering).

I'm looking for decent hardware I actually own and control, and I want to use it for a looooong time (10+ years).

Currently, I'm using a MacBook Pro M1, so this is my benchmark (material, battery life, computational power). But I really miss Linux and GNOME...

Planned OS: Fedora Linux

#linux #hardware #starlabs #notebook #laptop #fedora

Starting my journey of switching from Windows to #Linux as my daily driver - I have a shiny new #Starlabs laptop with #Ubuntu, just went through the first-boot process, and it's already perplexing.

Apparently the default user UID has changed from 500 to 1000... Which is annoying, because I'd like to keep my systems consistent, and I am UID 500 on the two servers we're running (both of which were set up *mumble* years ago).

How much trouble am I going to cause myself if I change my UID from 1000 to 500 on this new laptop?

StarFighter overview

https://video.folkdata.se/w/wAtf445J5RXV3QuHZHM69w

Does anyone here have a Starlabs laptop? I would love to hear your feedback. What's great, what's not so great?

Thanks!
#starLabs

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The StarLite 5 returns this February.
Pre-orders are live with a 𝟭𝟬% 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁.

https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

#linux #coreboot #starlabs #tablet

StarBook Horizon Linux laptop puts privacy first

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/starbook-horizon-linux-privacy-first/

Got my new #Starlabs Byte #Linux #Ubuntu desktop, I've only ever been a power user on any system. it read my game PDFs on my hard drive, good start trying to get qobuz working. Wiz 101 with wine is next.

Put remoting via work's MS auth system on the shelf

Steam is set up

What are essentials?

Probably need a Dev sandbox partition for FOSS projects (still have a dangerously curious brain)

I may have created a partition in 2006

Another rant: the other day I made a poll about looking at laptops and I mentioned I was looking into the Starlabs Horizon.

Not sure why I got it all mixed up but I'm pretty perplexed in their choice of using an Intel i3-N305. Maybe for better battery life? The more I looked into it, I guess I really don't know who this laptop is built for.

I'm still on the market but I think I'll end up getting a refurbished ThinkPad.

#Starlabs
#ThinkPad
#Linux