New Linux laptop arrived this week. Starlabs StarBook.

It feels tiny and oh so snappy. Lots of fun! This will be my little hacking/writing machine I can take on vacation - without getting close to work stuff that‘s on my MacBook.

Obviously the display, touchpad, fan noise, webcam, etc. can‘t match a MacBook, but I knew that when ordering.

But is has Linux on it and I enjoy that more in my day to day nowadays than macOS.

First impression was: "oh god, 1080p, I can't do this"

But I think that was mostly because I setup fonts in terminal the wrong way.

Now I think I'm used to it. And the 157ppi of the 14" display with 1080p isn't bad.

And thinking about it: this is probably the best tradeoffs. Framework laptops have higher resolution, which makes things too small on a 14" display, so you need to go to 200% scaling, which makes things too big. Fractional scaling (150%) doesn't work that well on Linux.

Lil hacking machine. It’s lots of fun. Exactly what I wanted.

@mrnugget What is the brand of this Laptop? An Apple?

@dankski Starlabs StarBook

@mrnugget Hi Thorsten. I am playing around with the idea of buying a StarBook. How was your experience do far? Do you have a AMD or Intel CPU?