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    United States: How do the Chinese and Russians fall for such obvious government propaganda!?!

    Also United States: OMG, my favorite show CSI: Miami Law Blue Bloods Unit is on! OMG, my favorite movie is on Cop Show, but With More CGI and Colorful Costumes!




  • I’m typing this message on my Dell XPS 13 9310. I’m really happy with it, specifically the 9310 model, not other models.

    • The volume, screen brightness, and keyboard brightness buttons all work great.
    • Bluetooth and wifi work great.
    • Touchpad and touchpad gestures work great. It’s also a decent size.
    • The FHD display has no scaling issues with any apps or any distros.
    • The keyboard and overall build quality feel nice.

    The one thing that doesn’t work great is the webcam. It turns on and captures video… except it’s really dark. Although, I haven’t tried running Wangblows on this, so maybe it’s Dell’s fault for picking bad hardware. Anyway, I just use an Opal Tadpole webcam and that works great. Happy to answer any questions about this laptop! I use Arch, btw, with GNOME. Zoom, Google Meet, Discord video calls and screen sharing all work as well.

    If you’re serious about this requirement:

    DPI/screen resolution doesn’t cause scaling issues

    then I would avoid Framework. I recently sold mine after daily driving it for about 1 year. My biggest complaint was the high DPI display. It will 100% cause scaling issues. You will have blurry apps and/or tiny text, 100%. People will suggest that you add a ton of config or switch distros—neither of which will actually 100% solve the issue—or use different apps—which you can’t always because alternatives may not exist. If you want to use arbitrary software like hexchat which is GTK2, DO NOT buy a Framework laptop. 🙅





  • Really my main point of doing this was to try something different. I’ve been neutral on flatpak this whole time. I’ve never had problems with native installs, but I’m also a little judicious on what I try to install on my systems. The point of this exercise was to flip those habits.

    About flatpaks, I’ve learned:

    • a ton of stuff I installed via AUR is available as a flatpak
    • some flatpak apps seem to be a little less buggy than the native installs for some reason… (Thunderbird specifically)
    • flatpaks use more disk space

    Distrobox has also been cool because I usually don’t like to install random crap on my machine, but with Distrobox I’ve been doing just that. I can install random C++ libraries, Node, Haskell, Postgres, etc and not worry about polluting my main system I actually care about. In the past, I would take some time to consider if I should really install this random thing. And yes, I’d pacman -Rs pkg if it didn’t pan out.

    I’m not sure if I’ll keep running the system like this, but so far it’s been interesting to run things a little differently.

    Things I’ve liked:

    • Thunderbird flatpak is less buggy than Thunderbird native
    • Managing flatpak apps via Software Center or flatpak is easy/nice
    • Distrobox seems useful for working on different types of software projects

    Things I don’t personally care about (but other people might and that’s fine):

    • using more disk space
    • the fact that my main system is still mutable

    Things I didn’t like:

    • nothing so far
    • I actually went in thinking I was gonna have to fight
    • with the flatpak permissions, but everything has worked
    • fine so far, so… not sure what I don’t like.
    • maybe I’ll hit a snag soon and then I’ll change my mind