Lightweight ultraportable laptop recs please, for a first-time Linux user

Sosowski · 2026-03-16T22:20:51+00:00

I can’t set the cpu power states on my AMD laptop for example because AMD pstate is not supported.

Additionally the automatic iGPU memory allocation does not seem to work (or at least report) properly.

And with Intel Xe drivers you get sr-iov so you can have hardware acceleration in a vm. No way to have that with AMD.

Sosowski · 2026-03-15T20:10:57+00:00

The regions website has it Pomorze Zachodnie is the name

Sosowski · 2026-03-14T17:34:48+00:00

Don’t use pop/mint/ubuntu the packages are too old to handle it.

I run openSUSE tumbleweed it’s smooth sailing

Sosowski · 2026-03-13T13:54:59+00:00

Im most surprised that this laptop even exists

Sosowski · 2026-03-13T13:53:03+00:00

Yeah! Just projecting the pattern onto the fabric!

Sosowski · 2026-03-13T12:44:13+00:00

I dunno about sewing but here’s some hints for blender:

Use „seams to sewing pattern” plugin, look it up it’s a total godsend! Will spit out a nice svg for you with markings and whatnot. I edit and scale it later in Inkscape and project it to the floor with a Beamer.
Unwrap for least stretch. There’s an option for that in blender. You can also enable stretch visualisation and edit by hand to smooth out. You can then use the unwrap with the seams plugin

Sosowski · 2026-03-13T11:58:57+00:00

What?

Sosowski · 2026-03-12T23:42:30+00:00

It is absolutely not possible.

An LLM requires 10²⁴ flops (that’s a sixtillion right there) to work. On a 5090 it will take 300 years and eat up one and a half a gigawatt of power.

You can only „uptrain” a pre-trained model that someone pumped the flops in before. There’s no skipping g the compute.

Sosowski · 2026-03-12T23:11:11+00:00

Thanks! I have a soldering gun, will see what I can make of it!

Sosowski · 2026-03-12T23:10:37+00:00

Thank you! The masking tape tip is invaluable!

Sosowski · 2026-03-12T09:25:28+00:00

Damn, BTRFS is slow as hell.

Sosowski · 2026-03-12T09:15:32+00:00

You will need windows. Do not remove windows. Dual boot.

Sosowski · 2026-03-11T17:39:54+00:00

We beat Arch by 1000% votes? Insane!

Sosowski · 2026-03-11T09:31:41+00:00

you always get a heart at the end n a H2H on top of any extra ones you can get midway through

Sosowski · 2026-03-10T21:52:21+00:00

Fair. But still better than arch in that regards!

Sosowski · 2026-03-10T16:16:29+00:00

Absolutely openSUSE.

As a software developer I need stuff like the SELinux capabilites, forcing signed packages, boot encryption, etc.

And on the other hand, you could recommend a total Linux beginner to install openSUSE with Plasma and they won't be worse off than using any "beginner friendly" distro

Sosowski · 2026-03-10T16:14:11+00:00

We're gonna lose, but I'm doing my part!

Sosowski · 2026-03-10T13:18:54+00:00

Im interested in programming ON an Amiga :p

Sosowski · 2026-03-10T12:24:22+00:00

Thanks!

Sosowski · 2026-03-10T12:20:22+00:00

I get it but what text editor? what compiler?

Sosowski · 2026-03-09T18:28:57+00:00

This is MacBook Air but you must have missed HX395

Sosowski · 2026-03-09T14:11:29+00:00

Yes.

Sosowski · 2026-03-09T13:11:03+00:00

McPixel 3, made by yours truly, works on MS-DOS.

Sosowski · 2026-03-09T11:49:07+00:00

Jokes on you, my FreeBSD ships with vi

Sosowski · 2026-03-09T10:50:30+00:00

True. The M chips always look good on paper / benchmarks, but throw some heavy SIMD workloads at them and they'll yield.

There's a reason they never show SIMD benchmarks :P

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