Comment by gchamonlive | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gchamonlive | Hacker News Reader

If you want portability on something premium, I can't recommend enough the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7. Specwise I've got the one with the Core ultra 5 125h. It also has an option with the 155h, but it battery and thermals can take a hit that I don't think it's worth it. It's got 16gb spread across 8x2gb modules and 512gb of ssd, both soldered, both extremely fast.

Build quality that rivals MacBooks, but with superior keyboard, very nice battery life and an oled screen on top of it.

The problem I had with the oled screen is that I thought it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade: https://github.com/gchamon/archie/blob/main/hypr/shaders/vib.... I am looking for a better solution because the filters get picked on screenshots and washes out the colours. I need to find an ICE profile or export one from Windows.

The camera also behaves a bit weirdly. It has noticeable quality difference when using chromium and other browsers, the latter with perceptible quality degradation.

Other than that, a very good mobile linux driver, snappy, cool, quiet, charges fast and a joy to use.

> it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade

Another option would be Redshift, which has a nice widget (Redshift Control plasmoid) for KDE Plasma. It doesn't affect grabbed screenshots or stuff like simplescreenrecorder, BTW

Will give it a try, thanks!

16gigs soldered seems like obsolete on arrival for a windows PC.

I briefly owned a Slim 7 32gigs but sold it because it felt too heavy for a 14incher. Got an M1 instead.

Windows itself is obsolete. My yoga is pretty slick and light.

Do you know what the oled screen resolution is on your device? One of my family members has what I believe is the same laptop, and while I appreciate the build quality, the OLED clearly isn't RGB (in its subpixel arrangement - or some other such major aspect), because the 1080p screen looks so bad for text I initially thought it was broken.

Oled pc screens have a terrible reputation for text. Some more than others, but it seems it's better to stick to lcd if you happen to read or write a lot.

1920x1200

It's awesome for text though. The only issue I found was the overblown reds.

Thanks. That’s funny (iirc it’s the same resolution), maybe they updated the sub pixel structure I suppose.

My daily driver is an X1 Carbon gen 5. 8 years old by now, but runs Arch (btw) flawlessly. I had an M1 MacBook Air before this and I actually prefer the old ThinkPad (but I do miss the MacBook's battery life)

I have an old Yoga that I've considered throwing Linux onto... are there any particular distros you've used that play nice with the touchscreen?

Default Ubuntu seems pretty touch-friendly these days with large icons etc.

The one I have doesn't have a touchscreen and I don't have any workflow that would benefit from it, so I can't help you there, sorry

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