This is cool and all, but I can't help but cringe when I see a corporate entity using Tumblr for official communication.
What would be better? Twitter?
Maybe Medium or running their own WordPress install?
System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances
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#72I love Pop!_OS. I have used Gentoo, Ubuntu and Arch in the past 10 years. I ended up with Antergos packaged version of Arch with a bunch of personal tweaks. I tried different distro every now and then but always ended disappointed. My only needs for distros are to install softwares I use and run them. It turns out to be significantly hard, none of the distros do that without glitches, screen tearing and inconsistency…
Lucky you because there's an OS that tweaks everything to your liking. The fact that Pop!_OS is not a rolling distro might be a big - for many people.
Fair point. I enjoy rolling release model too. Some times I hope Pop!_OS and Elementary were not based on Ubuntu at the first place.
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#73Aside: page doesn't load with uBlock enabled...
I have uBlock Origin installed and it works fine with the default lists.
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#74Do people actually buy laptop/desktop from system76? I tried to price a laptop from them before and it was quite expensive compare to main stream vendors like Dell. Its cheaper just buy a OEM laptop and slap ubuntu on it.
I found the cost similar to Lenovo, almost cheaper.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would be better? Twitter?
Maybe Medium or running their own WordPress install?
Medium is much, much worse than Tumblr. It's always full of annoying banners, a useless popup appears whenever you select text, and visually it's nothing to write home about. Just look at this [1] atrocity and determine how much of the screen area is devoted to absolutely useless crap.
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#76I love the idea of System76 and Coreboot and keep checking in on them every few months but the story seems to remain the same - horrible battery life. I can’t see dropping over 1k on a laptop that barely lasts 4 hours out of the box.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I consider the cost acceptable given they don't just "slap Ubuntu on it". The hardware is curated towards 100% Linux compatibility, and their custom OS (admittedly an Ubuntu variant) is tweaked to suit the hardware. It's a good marriage and to some it's worth the extra cost. Look at it like you would a Macbook; Apple charges a premium but the benefit the buyer receives from that extra cost is hardware and software th…
In terms of hardware support, the ArchLinux people seem to be doing more than anyone to document and tweak whatever laptop I look up. Kudos to them for doing so.
I haven't used Arch in quite a while but their wiki is great and generally isn't specific to Arch.
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#78The exclamation point in "Pop!_OS" is making me uncomfortable.
I've heard good things about it, but oh, that name... it makes it sound like an early-2000s kids' toy. Just name it Pop OS. And get rid of the underscore if you want to be user-friendly to the average person.
You're talking about the toy "Bop It" aren't you?
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#79They found world's biggest fish
Even you can't believe how big fish is this
That's unbelievable
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See how a Turkey saved the life of his friends Even those birds also have love in their hearts http://bit.ly/2WhAiZS
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I consider the cost acceptable given they don't just "slap Ubuntu on it". The hardware is curated towards 100% Linux compatibility, and their custom OS (admittedly an Ubuntu variant) is tweaked to suit the hardware. It's a good marriage and to some it's worth the extra cost. Look at it like you would a Macbook; Apple charges a premium but the benefit the buyer receives from that extra cost is hardware and software th…
Have you purchased a Lenovo lately? I've not had good luck with them. Despite 2 returns for service my Thinkpad T500 remained with a loose charging connector. My next Lenovo (notably not a Thinkpad) was a Y50 Ideapad. Audio to the speakers failed, the housing developed cracks at the hinge. The Ethernet connector broke (though used very little.) and now the SD card slot has failed. I'm giving Dell a try. You can buy t…
I have purchased two Lenovo T580 laptops within the last year, and both worked flawlessly with Fedora with zero tweaking. Both machines are running great so far. An older Lenovo I've had for a few years did have a hard drive die, but Lenovos are so easy to service that it was cake to replace the drive. If anyone from Lenovo is reading this, thank you for making it so easy to service the laptop for a user.
I have had a few Dells and I think hardware-wise it is the best, but that dual video card setup never worked quite right. Also until Fedora 29 came out (with a newer kernel) the only distro that I could install was the stock Ubuntu that came with the laptop (which didn't have full disk encryption, unfortunately).
I would recommend a Lenovo T580 or Dell XPS 15/5520. I think the Dell hardware is actually nicer than Apple, which is a high compliment.