Thoughts about System76 laptops?

@irene Hahaha very true
It’s ironic given the os is open sourced and free... hardware is on point but still very expensive

Very overpriced...

AFAIK they use Nvidia GPUs,
So their GPUs are, ironically, shit for linux.

I think if I wanted a Linux netbook, I would get an inexpensive laptop and install the OS myself. I definitely wouldn't pay those prices.

I don't dislike pop os, but them laptops seem a little overpriced

You can get an xps for the same price. Id much rather have a magnesium chassis high end laptop that a plastic whatever because "muh linuks"

I bought a thinkpad 580 for 1,068 USD
Just had a coworker show me the system 76 and wanted to know the general opinion of them

I prefer a smaller laptop like surface or thinkpad x series

I have an Oryx Pro 2018 model. It's the fastest desktop computer I have ever used. I had to do a lot of tweaking to get it working the way I want, the best it can, but as I personally love doing that, this is not a problem for me.

No idea what people are talking about, saying the nvidia driver is shit for linux. It works perfectly, and never has given me a problem on any machine. I get brilliant performance. It's proprietary, but so is its driver for Windows. I don't really see that as a reason to call it, "shit."

The Oryx is big and heavy, as it is explicitly marketed as a desktop replacement, but I have heard very good things about the portability and battery life of the more recently released Darter.

As for the price, my opinion is that the baseline price of a laptop is $2000 US. If you pay less than that, you're making a sacrifice of some kind. Plenty of System76 laptops come in at a lower price than that, but I would push the options until I'm over 2k, like I did with this one.