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their in-house Workbench distro seems really cool, looks super light and minimalistic. IMHO it's also priced reasonably enough.
sure hope you can choose which side that ten key is on
That's quite the long esc key. An ortholinear layout would be nice too.
"Get out of your way" is marketing speak to cover for missing applications. I've rarely seen such a blatant piece of marketing. "A computer for experts". Any computer with access to a terminal prompt is a computer for experts.
I’ll be really happy if this becomes a market segment. A commercial desktop specifically for technical users on Linux is great to see.
Its cringe to see something for enthusiasts cost 2k$ and have a keyboard layout from 100 years ago. I expect nothing less than ortholinear with thumb clusters
the choices made on the keyboard layout seem weird to me, though I do like the left hand numpad. But the big esc? the Fn key up top right seems like it makes key chords with it kind of hard. No ins key? no prt scr? is that 3 ctrl keys? or is that a caps lock? arrow keys etc seem a bit far away from main keyboard...
- $2,000 price

- GPU is equivalent to a NVIDIA RTX 1650

- "Low profile" mechanical keyboard rather than a regular mechanical keyboard.

- Low modularity similar to a laptop.

- Holes right on the top where your spilled coffee goes

That's a weird keyboard, some computer specs and a weird linux distro... that's going to cost you $2k.

$100 to have the rights to reserve one? That's really nice of them.

Well... Good luck guys!

Hard pass. Another Linux laptop with another sus distro won't teach anyone how to focus. Save a hand-me-down laptop from the landfill, install a known good distro, and do the hard work of culling distractions.
I was hoping to see a flip up 12” x 4” screen. A bunch of devices have been showing up recently with this particular format of OLED. Here’s one that may or may not be vaporware, but which links to a couple of other devices with the same screen, so presumably something is shipping:

https://liliputing.com/kernelcom-is-a-compact-mini-laptop-wi...

Alas, this is more of a BBC B / Amiga format nostalgia fest, from the homeland of the hipster dads, Central Shoreditch.

This device could certainly add real value though if the OS / hardware integration gets nailed. That is, after all, where the Raspberry Pi really shone brightly: defining a standardised and working platform.

Here's someone trying to build a serious PC focused on Linux. But the comments are very negative. And people wonder why the year of the Linux desktop still haven't arrived.

If you want PCs targeting Linux with good support... don't complain when someone tries doing exactly that.

This isn't made by developers, that's clear, and I don't think it's going to be very functional. However, I do love the aesthetic and I do love that someone is trying something new.
A laptop without a screen for the price of a regular laptop?

I get that economies of scale don't apply to something so niche, but that's just a bad deal. I'd rather get Framework Desktop.

i’ve been following this for a while and still find it completely wild that you can preorder but there’s effectively no details.

theres a couple completely unimpressive videos (like 15s long) from employees on linkedin where they show off… tiling window management.

Beautiful webpage but I would like to know more about both the machine and the OS.
Who is this for?

Because it's not for the developers I know – they either want a Macbook or an infinitely configurable (hardware and software) workstation, whereas this has the configurability of a Macbook with the ease of use of the workstation, clearly not a combination people want.

I can only assume this is for mechanical keyboard collectors. Developer-adjacent tech enthusiasts who like the idea of Linux, without an actual professional need for it. People who like well built devices, but don't really care about swapping out hardware. People who have a lot of disposable income and want to buy cool things.

If that's the target market, that's fine. I guess the problem is that market only buys it if you claim its for a different market, developers/etc. As a result it's going to rile up developers every time as they always feel the need to push back with "this isn't what I want".

Put in a couple of MIDI ports and I'll pretend it's a modern day Atari ST and run some Cubase...
There are huge black rectangles where screenshots should go. I'm assuming that's not supposed to be there...
If Teenage Engineering made a computer.

Expensive, not ergonomic, probably totally useless.

Might be worth to buy just for the parts
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So, basically, a headless laptop with a custom linux distro. 2K at that.

Alrighty then.

A few things about this stand out:

- Calligra with two 'l's is the name of a KDE office suite.

- Why does the keyboard have macOS keys? At least as a Linux user, I've felt like most Linux desktops reflect the Windows keyboard layout more.

- Can I have pictures of the internals of the machine, or is this a 3D rendering?

- The Workbench OS makes a lot of claims that I want more information about. Is this a rice on a common WM or something they made themselves? Why is it "suitable for sovereign and secure deployments"? Won't having homebrew and DNF lead to conflicts (this is more of a general question, since I genuinely don't know)?

Nonetheless, I have to say that it does look cool from a design perspective, and with the pace of DRAM prices, maybe the actual system price won't actually be that crazy in a few months.

This product is a massive downgrade and the price is devoid from the functionality that you can get from a typical laptop.

A Macbook Pro M5 running Asahi Linux would still be more cheaper than this trash scam.

No thanks and no deal.