StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop
Does anyone here run any of these OSes on any of the offered screen densities and resolutions? I have questions.<p>- Surely not every old program available from the repositories will work with display scaling, will they? I&#x27;ve never had to use it, maybe Xorg has some hack to scale certain windows at 2x so you don&#x27;t need support from individual packages. I&#x27;m also thinking of things like Burp Suite, which have window-like objects that interact horribly with things like i3 (from what I see with colleagues), so those might have similar issues when you have to tell Xorg to scale individual windows up. Is this something you run into?<p>- How much of an impact does that resolution have on battery life and GPU performance? I do not need more than 1920x1080 pixels on a 16&quot; diagonal, my eyes can hardly read small fonts on that DPI as it is (I&#x27;m ~30) and they&#x27;re not going to get better with age. This laptop ships with either double or quadruple that, making me wonder what the trade-off is like of having this (for me) gimmick. Surely it doesn&#x27;t double&#x2F;quadruple the battery drain or halve&#x2F;quarter the performance compared to a normal screen?<p>- I also don&#x27;t see flickering at 60 Hz (heck, 24 Hz TV looks smooth to me), so 165 Hz seems again like a battery drainer and performance reducer. How much of an impact does it have to try and render 2.75x as many frames per second on a GPU? Does it simply use 2.75x more power for the GPU or reduce the number of drawing operations you can do on the GPU by 2.75 times, or does this not work that way?<p>Edit: this is currently at the top, but I don&#x27;t want the top comment to be criticism. This product is awesome in virtually every other regard besides shipping time. Good physical size, decent number of USB ports, customization of the keyboard, c-c-coreboot?! Officially supported? I am definitely impressed. Heck, even the payment methods impress me, being able to select iDeal at a small foreign shop.