Looking for a "couch laptop"

parallax@local106.com to Linux@lemmy.ml – 90 points –

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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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?

I mean in firefox, not trying to get fancy.

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

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

Isn't that kind of the point though? I'd appreciate the option, but I don't know how usable actual web apps would be without access to those things

Yes of course. Thats why support would totally be possible, but it needs to be a seperate unhardened firefox profile. Then all good.

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.

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