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Re:System76 – Pangolin by elcritch on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:57PM (#25299139)
> 1920×1080 FHD

Not even a 4:3 display! 1080 vertical is almost useless for coding. Seems much of their target market of Linux enthusiasts would have a lot of coders wanting better than that.

Re:System76 – Pangolin by sbierwagen on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:22AM (#25299866)
The cow has long, long left the pen on that one. I haven't seen a 4:3 laptop in years.
Re:System76 – Pangolin by elcritch on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:30AM (#25300259)
Too true, for 4:3 at least. Though the Microsoft Surface is 3:2. Macbooks are 16:10, which gives 10% more vertical.
Re:System76 – Pangolin by heelix on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:25PM (#25310269)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FRPL763/?coliid=I3UN9SRZOFDBAD&...

There you go. 3000x2000 on a 13.9" screen with a reasonably current processor. They have a few updated variants out there. (Was shopping for a 3:2 laptop when Dell finally got around to shipping a 16:10 7" display)

Re:System76 – Pangolin by ezequiel-garzon on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:28AM (#25299900)
I love that expression! I only knew about the ship that had already sailed...
Re:System76 – Pangolin by npongratz on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:19AM (#25302422)
Other fun related idioms:

"The genie is out of its bottle."

"The horse has left the barn."

"You can't unring a bell."

Re:System76 – Pangolin by ezequiel-garzon on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:24PM (#25403445)
Thanks! I saw this over a week later.
Re:System76 – Pangolin by nikki93 on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:10AM (#25299209)
Works pretty fine / well with a tiling window manager.
Re:System76 – Pangolin by elcritch on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:52AM (#25299729)
Sure it can work, but it’s certainly not for me since I believe it’s a poor choice of default screen size for anything but primarily watching movies, as the aspect ratio limits the vertical viewing area significantly.

I like the way one blogger describes a 1440p vs a 1080p: “A 1440p monitor will give you 3x code windows side by side and 76 lines of code. This is a pretty big deal. You might not realize it until you’ve tried it for a while but being able to comfortably have 3 editor files open and being able to view about 50% more vertical lines of code at a glance is huge.” ( https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-good-monitor-fo... )

Though someone else mentioned they have 4K version, not just a 1080 version! That can work better with the right scaling. The rest of the laptop looks nice.

Re:System76 – Pangolin by nikki93 on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:08PM (#25306344)
I also use a mac pretty regularly and a 1440p desktop. I was getting at the aspect ratio issue, which it seems like you were talking about first, before now talking about resolution (?). Yes, a higher resolution can fit more pixels. The absolute actual size in inches also matters though for how big the text ends up appearing.
Re:System76 – Pangolin by lultimouomo on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:11AM (#25300160)
Pretty much every IDE now assumes wide screen and default to a layout with a central editor and navigation/tools sidebars on the sides. And it actually works out great!

I don't think a majority of linux enthusiasts codes mainly in vim or emacs anymore.

Re:System76 – Pangolin by bradwood on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:43PM (#25307648)
I'm not convinced on this.

Both Vim & Emacs have hardcore followings and buoyant communities.

Neovim + coc.nvim is massive these days... I know a lot of people who've moved from VSCode (or other big IDEs) over to terminal-based editors...

Re:System76 – Pangolin by adamc on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:11AM (#25303914)
No idea. I still use emacs because it's still the most programmable editor. I had some hopes for Atom, but after Microsoft bought GitHub... seems dead-ish.