System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020
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#2Please don’t have a bezel.
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#3Awesome news. I bought a Darter Pro back in March and the experience has been great. I was a little hesitant at first because I'm not a Linux expert, but their team puts a lot of effort into making sure stuff with Pop_Os "just works." It might not be quite as polished as a macbook, but it's a comparable product at half the price, plus I get to support open source. Thelio looks amazing and I'm excited to see what they can do in the laptop space.
Re: System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020
#4Please consider adding an Ultranav-like pointing device and an API for the battery-controlling EC (start/stop charging thresholds - unless you already have that). FWIW those are the only things that are keeping me glued to the Thinkpad line.
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#5Awesome news. I bought a Darter Pro back in March and the experience has been great. I was a little hesitant at first because I'm not a Linux expert, but their team puts a lot of effort into making sure stuff with Pop_Os "just works." It might not be quite as polished as a macbook, but it's a comparable product at half the price, plus I get to support open source. Thelio looks amazing and I'm excited to see what they…
I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own.
Hardware companies trying to write software usually ends in disaster. (Yes Lenovo, I'm looking at you)
Re: System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020
#6Awesome news. I bought a Darter Pro back in March and the experience has been great. I was a little hesitant at first because I'm not a Linux expert, but their team puts a lot of effort into making sure stuff with Pop_Os "just works." It might not be quite as polished as a macbook, but it's a comparable product at half the price, plus I get to support open source. Thelio looks amazing and I'm excited to see what they…
I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own. Hardware companies trying to write software usually ends in disaster. (Yes Lenovo, I'm looking at you)
>I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own
Since Pop_Os is derived from Ubuntu, you could argue that this is just what they did.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own. Hardware companies trying to write software usually ends in disaster. (Yes Lenovo, I'm looking at you)
>I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own Since Pop_Os is derived from Ubuntu, you could argue that this is just what they did.
The point is, now there is yet another distro out there as its own island, stealing resources and not contributing to the rest of the community (including Ubuntu)
Re: System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own Since Pop_Os is derived from Ubuntu, you could argue that this is just what they did.
The point is, now there is yet another distro out there as its own island, stealing resources and not contributing to the rest of the community (including Ubuntu)
Stealing resources? How do you steal that which is given away for free?
Re: System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I still feel they should've used those resources to improve an existing distro instead of creating their own Since Pop_Os is derived from Ubuntu, you could argue that this is just what they did.
The point is, now there is yet another distro out there as its own island, stealing resources and not contributing to the rest of the community (including Ubuntu)
Are you positive they aren't contributing anything upstream?
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#10Will they be sticking with x86? They seem like one of the few companies that could get away with releasing a POWER line.