Luna Lactea

My 14 inch laptop is great. It's portable, but it requires space. It can't actually be used on a lap easily. I think I want a smaller laptop. My old Aspire One ZG5 (died because of a BIOS issue & I don't know where it is now) would be almost perfect for this. It was about nine inches. If I could find a laptop that fits in my pocket & have it still be large enough to see things on & type on without trouble it would be great.

A larger screen is very nice, but it turns something that's supposed to be portable into what is basically an all in one desktop with less setup time when it has to be moved & an internal UPS.

Mar 27 at 12:39amWeb
Show threadLuna Lactea1d ago
If I can take it with me & use it almost whenever like a DS (obviously larger than that though) it would be perfect.
Show threadrafi15h ago
@jackemled this but a bf...
Show threadcaden  1d ago

@jackemled

Like a GPD pocket then? Unfortunately they are very expensive right now I think. Seems very nice to slap Fedora on.

Show threadLuna Lactea1d ago

@cadenwolfgang I haven't heard of it.

I'm also trying to move from Fedora to another operating system 
I'm trying Chimera Linux now, but so far I dislike the package manager & not much being available for it yet.

Show threadcaden  1d ago

@jackemled

I think it has existed for a while now, at least 11th gen Intel years old. Before it had a joystick on top of the keyboard, but they have removed it (Edit: or maybe on a different model?).

Lots of people are talking about CachyOS. Don't know much about it other than maybe you could try it if it sounds interesting.

Show threadLuna Lactea1d ago
@cadenwolfgang My issues with Fedora are that it has to defend against LLM stuff so often that it's forced to tank some of the damage & also the recent issues with systemd getting randomly generated code. An init system is not something you want to gamble with. If there was a Fedora fork run by people capable of finding & replacing randomly generated code with something safe & that had a different init system I would just use that.
Show threadmimi1d ago
@jackemled "they shouldn't even make laptops bigger than this"
Show threadLuna Lactea1d ago
@midnaw I think about 16 inches is the biggest a laptop should ever be & only if it's designed for maximum practicality & must be that large in order to have all of its ports & a good heat management system. It still only makes sense for a traveling business guy though, & a business guy traveling doesn't make sense anymore because the Internet is good enough to do your digital documents or calls over.
Show threadmimi1d ago
@jackemled i have a 13 inch macbook air and it's genuinely the most convenient laptop i've ever owned like if i'm going somewhere on short notice i just chuck it in my bag and carry on
Show threadSpinda 🐲🦊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️1d ago
I use a combination of a 10" One Netbook 5 (despite the name, it's got a 12th-gen i7 inside) and, recently, a GPD MicroPC 2 that fits in my purse for true handheld computering.