[jmagoon]

The other good thing about this is that the Pixelbook is a 3:2 screen, so finally there's a laptop with a proper display resolution that can run Linux nicely.

There's a good community of folks over at https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/ who have been tinkering with this for quite some time.

[Daycrawler]

Why is 3:2 better than standard 16:9?

[ptman]

It depends on what you do. 16:9 is better for wathing 16:9 movies. But if you read lots of text, narrower, longer columns are usually a lot more handy. We have way more vertical than horizontal scrollbars.

[slantyyz]

> Why is 3:2 better than standard 16:9?

It's not better. It's usually just people projecting their personal preferences as though they should apply to everyone else.

Every one is different, so as long as the individual is content with what they've got, it doesn't really matter what aspect ratio they're using.

[mindslight]

Because 16:9 ("shortscreens") was a ploy by manufacturers to sell a smaller screen for the same diagonal. Combined with much of the vertical dimension being eaten by the general pattern of window decoration + app taskbar + app toolbars + OS taskbar, and well, at least they're good for watching movies!

[aembleton]

More vertical space for reading text, including code

[euyyn]

Taller, better for coding.

[nqzero]

huawei matebook x is 3:2 and runs linux nicely

surface book appears to as well, but i don't have one of them to vouch for

[lunchables]

The Verge makes it sound like the touchpad is basically unusable and battery life is apparently poor.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16007692/huawei-matebook-...

[jacksmith21006]

This should be better battery life using GNU/Linux. The process the supports the VM runs under ChromeOS.

[mschuster91]

> with a proper display resolution

3:2? No thanks I don't really want black bars when watching movies...

What I'd really really like is something with the build quality (especially the touchpad!) of a MacBook Pro, with decent and recent hardware, first class Linux support for all features, support for both USB-C and "old" USB and a decent keyboard with it. And that without paying more than for an technologically outdated yet still top-of-the-line MBP...

[confounded]

You’re pretty much describing Purism’s Librem line of laptops:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/

[dijit]

Cool, so buy something else; literally every laptop on the market is catering for you, and I'm genuinely happy for you-- but those of us who prefer taller aspect ratios have nothing.. please let us have this.

[lallysingh]

So a thinkpad.

[donatj]

> No thanks I don't really want black bars when watching movies...

I genuinely never understand people that watch movies on laptops. I find it a wholly unenjoyable experience.

Do you own a TV? You’re missing so much of the experience watching a movie on anything smaller than 45” and TVs are dirt cheap these days. I saw a 65” the other day for $250...