[uniqueuid]

Absolutely.

I have a clockwork pi devterm, which is arguably on the more usable end of the spectrum.

In practice, the keyboard (and trackball) are much too small and cumbersome to use with joy. Another thing is that despite the very capable hardware (it has a rockchip along with plenty of RAM, I think 4 or 8GB), modern software just has so much latency.

Perhaps we've been spoiled by today's ssds, but even cli software just feels much slower than what we're used to.

[floren]

I'm puzzled by the devterm, because it seems like if they had just made it the same size as a TRS-80 Model 100, it would have been perfect! Those were certainly portable too! Maybe they couldn't find a big enough screen?

[RodgerTheGreat]

Proof that off-the-shelf panels of the correct dimensions exist:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/uknqz2/for_anyon...

Count me among those who wish the devterm had been made full-size.

[selfhoster11]

Actually I think that old CLI software is a bit faster on SSDs than modern CLI software. I would have to do some benchmarks to confirm this, but it certainly seems to be the case when booting older Linux distros on modern hardware.