The Framework Laptop

• thinkeys

  4 24 7.6

  Discontinued Split ortholinear custom replacement keyboard with TrackPoint for ThinkPad laptops. [Moved to: https://github.com/moduloindustries/thinkeys] (by dennisleexyz)

  

What's the chance of a thicker/deeper version in the future? I'd love to see one with enough thickness to support a low profile mechanical keyboard for custom layouts.

With my RSI, I'm almost unable to use standard laptop keyboards, so I have to travel with a split ergo keyboard. Most laptops have enough room to support a split ortho layout, but aren't thick enough (or modular enough) for enthusiasts to roll their own.

Take a look at the Thinkeys [0] and pineapple60 [1] projects for what's possible.

[0]: https://github.com/dennisleexyz/thinkeys

• pineapple60

  20 168 1.8 HTML

  first ergonomic keyboard with Trackpoint

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• libinput

  5 158 0.0 C

  Discontinued Input device management and event handling library **MIRROR ONLY**

  

> That's my personal requirement. On a personal laptop I always use the trackpad so I want it to be the best.

100%. On my personal devices I don't want to compromise on trackpad or keyboards (I like that apple went back on the butterfly keyboards).

The rest of my comment is just my personal experience so take it with a grain of salt. I've found the trackpad experience on the XPS and Thinkpad X1 laptops to be excellent under linux. The libinput [1] drivers seem to work really well and the gesture support seems nice too. What I miss from MacBook's touchpad is force-touch. Not having to worry about which part of the touchpad i'm pressing was really nice when I used a macbook.

I'm contemplating purchasing a m1 macbook air as my next laptop, but I'm also not sure i'd be willing to give up on being able to run linux natively on a laptop I buy with my own money.

[1] https://github.com/wayland-project/libinput

• pentadactyl

  4 53 0.0 JavaScript

  Pentadactyl for Pale Moon (community maintained)

  

https://github.com/pentadactyl/pentadactyl

The development¹ has been continued by the community after Firefox removed support for XUL extensions.

¹Well, tbh basic maintenance is a more accurate term — the updates have been minor, and the patch that enables it in the latest version of Palemoon hasn’t been pushed to the addon store yet, you have to clone from master at the moment.

• HapticKey

  3 1,645 2.4 Objective-C

  A simple utility application to trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar.

Exactly. The most impressive part is that it really feels like a click, down to the illusion it's moving down (but it's not, at all). When powering off (or there's a crash), the feeling of it being immovable is surreal.

One can leverage the haptic feedback to make the TouchBar a bit more lively[0]. The illusion breaks a bit since the haptic device is farther away from the touch surface but it's still quite a transformative experience for the TB.

[0]: https://github.com/niw/HapticKey

• Fusuma

  74 3,536 8.3 Ruby

  Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux (by iberianpig)

I have both laptops and both touchpads are really nice. Though Apple's is nicer for being bigger and I prefer their materials to the XPS.

If you run linux on the XPS this project (https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma) is great for configuring multi-touch gestures that work like the Mac.

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