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I was recently in a similar boat, as the combination of discord + twitch was really making my 11 year old i5-2520M-based T420 really show its age (WHY IS A DESKTOP CHAT CLIENT AN ELECTRON APP??!??!) even with 16 GiB RAM in Arch Linux. I settled on a 16GB X13 Gen 2 from the outlet store (which seemed like a deal at ~520 USD). Coincidentally that's where I bought the T420 in 2011. The outlet store seems like a good way…
System 76 is the first Linux laptop I’ve liked. Have had intermittent issues with the touchpad after updates. Solid machine.
As time has gone on, the experience has degraded substantially. Bluetooth audio has degraded substantially as I've kept up with updates. It basically doesn't have a battery.
Its really felt like PopOS! has gone from an 'it just works' version of linux, to yet-another-power-users-only version of linux.
I have serious hesitance about endorsing either at this point.
My framework laptop has served me very well for the last year or so. This is one of the few pieces of open source hardware that is genuinely better (IMO) than many other larger hardware brands. The entire device is just so well built and the upgrade path is so well defined.
I jumped on the System76 train initially and feel burned. I'm looking for an alternative for my next machine. Its gotta actually have functional battery life next round. I expected a firmware update at some point from system76 to resolve this and it basically has never happened.
How do I down vote one? I'm on a System76. I gave it a shot. No.
Can you tell us what problems you ran into?
the trackpad sucks, it seldom works. the material feels cheap. the builtin speakers are a joke. the machine is very fast but the fan goes off like an airplane during compute-intensive tasks. the custom OS is annoying (but that's on me, i should have picked Ubuntu). the OS is annoying because you solve most of your issues with solutions, blogs, etc. written for Ubuntu. or Debian.
i have 5 laptops. the system76 is the worst.
Does Google use the X1 because it’s so good with Linux, or is it so good with Linux because of companies like Google?
As someone who has been using a Thinkpad X1 with Linux on it since 2014, I'd probably strongly consider getting another one. Framework is the only other tempting choice, but some people voiced concerns about Linux compability with the latest revision. Might be worth messing around with it though.
As someone who has been using a Thinkpad X1 with Linux on it since 2014, I'd probably strongly consider getting another one. Framework is the only other tempting choice, but some people voiced concerns about Linux compability with the latest revision. Might be worth messing around with it though.
Hi, my name is Matt Hartley. I'm the new Linux Lead for Framework. Our laptops have great support for both Ubuntu and Fedora. I'm typing this from Fedora right now. We also have community support for other distros as well.
Someone correct me if I am missing some nuance here but I think the two MacBook options aren't contenders for best laptop running Linux. The drivers simply don't support basic things like the touchpad or wifi (at least not without extensive reworking and a modified kernel). Perhaps in some years Asahi Linux will be functional as a daily driver on the newer ARM/Apple Silicon but it's definitely a hobby laptop right no…