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I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ

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. 🙅

I love the little cultural differences here. In the US, our old traditional saying of "grab 'em by the pussy" means you're fit to be president. But I guess other countries interpret this as sexual harassment. 🤷 😭

at least a few will pause and realize, “Wait, other countries have higher standards...”

Nice thought, but too generous. If you're not England, France, or maybe Germany, then we consider you a third world country. (Incorrectly!)

If anything, this will piss them off more: "How dare these third world countries reject the world's best food?!"

Everyone says they’d love having a small phone, then buy something else when it’s time to spend money.

I own a Palm Phone, a Unihertz Jelly, an iPhone 13 Mini, a Light Phone 2. Although, from that line up only the iPhone 13 Mini is viable. The rest of the phones come with other issues...

I also don't have heavy phone usage, so battery life isn't really a problem for me.

For example... I could play the sound of an eagle and that could be telling your Eco or Google Home device to unlock your doors.

Oh, damn! Cool!

I don't know about foods, but do you know how to play a wind instrument? Playing trumpet for 30 seconds has been a 100% cure for me. Then you can get on with the eating.

Interesante! Gracias por compartir!

In the digital age, you still have to talk with humans. What did my coworker tell me again? The wheels need to be torqued to 150 Nm or ftlb or lbft? Shoot. He's busy helping other customers now... uhh... I'll just wing it.

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

Honestly, just because I'm the most comfortable in Arch. I tried VanillaOS briefly, but it was way too annoying to install tailscale, so I went back to what I know.

Luckily, I'm able to afford more than an 8GB SSD on my laptop. 😆

$ podman system df
TYPE           TOTAL       ACTIVE      SIZE        RECLAIMABLE
Images         2           1           2.775GB     2.293GB (83%)
Containers     1           0           3.492GB     3.492GB (100%)
Local Volumes  2           2           0B          0B (0%)

$ flatpak list | wc -l
65
$ du -hs /var/lib/flatpak
12G	/var/lib/flatpak

$ df -h
Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cryptroot  234G   31G  191G  14% /

A 256GB drive is on the smaller side and I'm barely at 14%. Storage is cheap.