Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot

Re:Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot by intricatedetail on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:15AM (#28988737)

It could be a great tool, but why almost always keyboards seem to be designed by people who don't use them?

When are we going to get a keyboard with proper set of keys in the right size? Like cursors, PgUp, PgDown, Home, End etc?

Also it's a shame they don't say where they make these laptops.

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Re:Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot by marcellus23 on Monday October 25, 2021 @12:47PM (#28990025)

> Like cursors, PgUp, PgDown, Home, End etc?

This is a valid complaint for developer laptops (which this obviously is), but for general laptops I'd guess most users never touch PgUp, PgDown, Home, End, and probably couldn't even tell you what they do.

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Re:Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot by GekkePrutser on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:30PM (#28991380)

You'd be surprised. I even see my mother in her 70s doing it.

Though of course when she started doing a "computer course" it involved WordPerfect 5.1 :) But things she could do back then like editing a config file would scare her in these days of glossy GUIs but these keys don't. Perhaps a millenial (or is it Gen Z?) has more issues with them as they've never known anything before the touchscreen :)

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Re:Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot by Djrhfbfnsks on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:58PM (#28993650)

Maybe they're vim or emacs users? I can't remember the last time I used one of those keys.

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Re:Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot by intricatedetail on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:04PM (#28994854)

How do you edit text files?

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Re:Star Labs StarLite Mk IV – 11" Linux laptop with Coreboot by Djrhfbfnsks on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:12AM (#29000643)

neovim

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