The biggest down side of my inifintity book is that my right shift key is a painful stretch. Because they use full sized arrow keys and the up takes up the useful half of the right shift.

So half the time i hit up instead of shift and start typing my sentence on the wrong line. Its fucking infuriating.

God knows why they made that choice but next laptop i will be sure to watch out for that

How's the build quality? Is it all aluminium, or just parts of it? Is the touchpad glass/haptic, or regular plastic kind?

Well, "european". But have to start somewhere.

Are they not?

The brands are, yes.

I genuinely thought that this was a meme about stereotypes around how different countries name products for a second.

I've got a similar model. Build quality is pretty good. Although I have had issues with the speakers and one of the charging ports (there is redundancy here tho as it comes with 2 USBC). Chassis is all aluminium. Not sure exactly the touchpad material - probably plastic, with no haptics.

Overall the design is modelled on Macbooks with great screens and similar shape, but with handy extras like some actual ports.

They are just white-labeled from other companies so you might be able to find them cheaper, but overall they are sold at a fair price compared to mainstream brands.

Linux support? amazing, been running Debian on it no problems, everything working out of the box.
Customer support? no idea, I had no need to contact them

Parts are not. Didn't look more to see if assembled in the EU or just designed in

You have a StarBook? Would you mind saying which one? I was all but decided on a Tuxedo, but then I saw how (seemingly) sexy the Horizon looks, and now I'm a bit on the fence... :D

sorry, I misread, I have StarLabs Lite, not the Horizon. But I am seriously considering upgrading to it

Oooh, that's even more interesting! OK, tell me more, please! :D

How's battery life? They say it's "up to 12 hours", but I'm assuming that's "lowest brightness, no BT, no WiFi", staring at a black wallpaper"?

Which OS did you go with? Debian? And were there any issues with drivers for the touch-screen?

Do you have it with the keyboard/cover? Does it automatically go to sleep when you close it? Same with the power button press - does it go to sleep and then recover without issues?

yet

Tuxedo and starlabs both ship to US. First time hearing of slimbook for me.

At least in Finland last I did 2 years ago it was still a pain, and extra taxes

But is it also a distro?

It will take at least 10 years to establish a manufacturer in Europe. What are you supposed to do if you need a computer now?

(mind, you should always buy secend-hand)

No, you can install what you want on it, or ask them to preload a distro of your choice.

Battery life is good, not 12 hours, but I would say closer to 8 to 10 depending on usage. Charge time is a bit long since the battery has a lot of capacity.

Everything worked on Debian out of the box, I'm, using GNOME and did not have to configure nor setup anything extra. Sleep works fine and I have setup the power button to that behaviour. Sometimes when the battery is too low (say about 10%), then it won't wake up from sleep even tho that ought to be enough juice to keep the computer running for about an hour still, that might be a BIOS setting I haven't bothered to look into.

I dont get it tbh

Ah, thank you for clarifying

Thank you, that's super helpful! :)

Coma. Nature's time travel device.

Well if you look at parts then a european or even US laptop is just not possible.

Are they any good

I also like:

https://novacustom.com/

https://minifree.org/

Both suppliy computers with Coreboot firmware.

I really like the ethos of framework

Yeah...

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

Of course that's "just" their CEO. Some nice Linux first devices, though.

And are there models actually for sale or is it all RFQ/vaporware?

Just read the literal second post with their reply man

The CEO's non-replies and eventual silencing of all discussion is exactly the point. Support continues, customers ignored.

Does it run Paradox games too?

I have a feeling it would struggle with Stellaris. It struggles with Halo 1 two player fyi, I think it's more a CPU issue than a GPU issue

Hmm, interesting. I was considering to switch over from a Macbook Pro (13 inch, 2017 model), to eg. a Starlabs Starbook (or Starfighter), but wasn't sure considering the Paradox games. The Macbook runs them fine with 8 GB, except for late-game Stellaris & Imperator.