5 Years of Pop _OS
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5 Years of Pop _OS
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#2I've owned three System76 desktops.
Highly recommended if you want a Linux desktop computer.
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#3It sounds like they are taking a big bet on rewriting large components of the OS custom for Pop OS in Rust. I wish them the best but it sounds like a big commitment and I’m holding my breath for them to succeed.
I’m curious how System76 sees Pop_OS fitting into their business model which is primarily hardware.
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#4Congrats! Pop_OS rebuilt in Rust?? Sounds pretty sweet.
Really wish I had enough money for a System76 PC. Go on there at least 10 times a year and build out a PC or two just to dream...
Sorry for abandoning my cart with ridiculous PC specs built for one of those hoodie wearing hackers in media photos.
Edit: I'm posting too fast so for the person commenting on what boards they use...
https://tech-docs.system76.com - here is your answer.
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#5Just a happy Pop user- been rock solid for me for 3 years- the features they add are really seamless and well thought out. Congrats on 5 years!
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#6I really like Pop Os. I've always liked Debian descended distros, and prior to this I was using Ubuntu. While I like it, I always found a lot of rough edges esp. when it came to proprietary drivers, etc. where things didn't always work without some tweaking. Pop Os on the other hand seems to "just work" - it is like a polished version of Ubuntu with a nice selection of apps in the Pop Shop. Theme is pretty nice as well as a bonus.
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#7I've owned three System76 desktops. Highly recommended if you want a Linux desktop computer.
I've had two system 76 laptops and I've been happy with them. The company seems to do a decent amount of work on upstreaming fixes they make to software and they generally seem to be good members of the open source community. I'm looking to buy my first new desktop in a long time as soon as the 4090's are available, and was originally planning to go with System76, but I've heard some people say the cooling in the desktop systems is really bad, to the point that it causes stability or thermal throttling issues.
Since I've only seen a couple of data points, I'm curious if you have anything to add about the thermals and whether it's something worth considering as I'm looking around for a new desktop.
Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS
#8It sounds like they are taking a big bet on rewriting large components of the OS custom for Pop OS in Rust. I wish them the best but it sounds like a big commitment and I’m holding my breath for them to succeed. I’m curious how System76 sees Pop_OS fitting into their business model which is primarily hardware.
Yeah I never understood why they are spending so much time on this. Seems like they would be better off improving the hardware offering, or just making generic integrations which work on any Linux distribution?
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#9I've owned three System76 desktops. Highly recommended if you want a Linux desktop computer.
I had one of their systems, a gazelle professional 4 if I recall right, it must've been around, oh say, 2013?
And it was quite a nice machine, great linux compat, the 4-core i7 in it performed quite well and it let me load it up with RAM. It wasn't too heavy or anything and I liked the display.
But the battery life. Good lord. 45 minutes, 55 if I messed and fussed with power settings and such. Basically gaming-laptop-tier "more like a UPS than a battery" battery performance.
My next laptop was a thinkpad T440s and it had similarly good linux compat and it performed much better for battery life - I got an i5 in that one and saw 8ish hours of battery life, and it had a hot-swap feature where I could swap in a big-ass battery once I depleted the slim one and get an additional 20(!!) something hours of battery life on a single boot. Great for car trips and heavy all-day use like at conferences.
But then superfish and I swore Lenovo had lost me for-ever.
So my current laptop is an XPS13 and I get 8-10ish hours off one charge with it, and it is super thin and the only Linux issue I've had is needing a very new kernel when I bought it new a year and a half or so ago, new enough that Linux Mint didn't ship it OOTB and the live ISO couldn't get WiFi, so I installed Arch instead, where their latest install image did indeed have a sufficiently new kernel.
So I'm a happy XPS user right now and I've found I like the 13" form factor. Would I be disappointed on battery performance if I went with a system76 machine for my next laptop?
Re: 5 Years of Pop _OS
#10I've owned three System76 desktops. Highly recommended if you want a Linux desktop computer.
I had one of their systems, a gazelle professional 4 if I recall right, it must've been around, oh say, 2013? And it was quite a nice machine, great linux compat, the 4-core i7 in it performed quite well and it let me load it up with RAM. It wasn't too heavy or anything and I liked the display. But the battery life. Good lord. 45 minutes, 55 if I messed and fussed with power settings and such. Basically gaming-laptop…
I am on a Lemur Pro from them, and it gets 14 hours of battery life.