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. 🤷 😭

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.

There is some degree of independence. For example, if Mozilla releases some super evil patch tomorrow, I’m pretty sure everyone would just patch it out immediately. In fact, this is what most derivatives seem to do, patch out the ad/telemetry stuff.

But yeah, these are all modified Firefox browsers. Hopefully, nobody was thinking these were unique, new, browsers.

Browsers I tried yesterday (on Linux):

• Zen: neat, but the UI is too different for my taste
• Floorp: also neat, but features I don’t use
• Waterfox: sweet spot for me

Librewolf and Waterfox seem pretty similar on paper. I went with Waterfox cuz idk. So far, Waterfox seems to be a drop-in replacement. I haven’t noticed any problems with websites and haven’t run into any bugs.

One note about Waterfox is that I would have liked if it was added to the official Arch Linux repos. I installed fine with the AUR, but still.

Bonus: Waterfox is available on Android! 🥳