System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock

Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by jjoonathan on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:22PM (#28373095)

I love numeric keypads. I don't have to type in big chunks of numbers very often (OCR and GPIB go a long way) but when I do, numeric pads make me hate life a lot less.

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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by stavros on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:37PM (#28374911)

I have a custom keyboard I designed, and I configured it so that the tilde key turns the right-hand side into a numpad (ie the yuiohjkl etc keys). It's great, no need for extra unused buttons and very convenient to use (as the left hand is typically not used when typing on the num pad).

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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by kej on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:38PM (#28375315)

I used to have a Sony laptop like this, where NumLock turned the uiojkl keys into 456123, so you could use them (along with 789 above them) as a number pad. It was a clever design and I wish more laptops offered it.

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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by innocenat on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:14AM (#28376883)

I thought almost all laptop before 2010 is like this though. It was normal back in the day.

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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by Koshkin on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @04:50PM (#28373472)

I prefer the hidden one.

https://www.dummies.com/computers/pcs/the-hidden-numeric-key...

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Re:System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals n... by jjoonathan on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:42PM (#28383985)

I've never been able to get comparable ergonomics out of these. Maybe I just haven't been forced to use them enough -- or maybe the increased travel distance really does matter. I could see it going either way.

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