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Looking for a "couch laptop" (local106.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm in the market for a Linux friendly ultralight laptop to check web apps and run terminal, nothing fancier then that. Do any cheap systems exits these days? I was looking at a chrome book but apparently the mediatek chip doesn't play nicely with FOSS.

Any thoughts?

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

When you say webapps, may I ask what method you prefer for using PWAs on Linux? Do you install them as apps? If so, how?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean in firefox, not trying to get fancy.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I use Brave pretty much just for that purpose, while I use Firefox to browse everything else.
    There is Firefox PWA, but it feels like such a shitty hack (don't get me wrong, it's not badly made, but they're forced by the circumstances to make a setup process that is one big headache) that I'd rather have a browser that has official and solid support and it also doubles as my browser to test web content on Blink, so it's a win-win for me

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Problem is that Webapps require a very unhardened browser. Complete caching, cookies saved, serviceworkers in the background, so if Firefox got the feature hardening would break it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yea, I tried with Firefox PWA, but as you have told, it was not usable for me. Most PITA was, that I had to install my plugins on any PWA again and again.. I would love using a browser which is not chromium based but has nice PWA features.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe you can try GNOME Web if you don't like Chromium, it should have them too, not sure how good the implementation is, though

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