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Im not sure I understand the meme but I hate my system76 and looking for the true Linux Laptop..
The meme asserts that people saying "system76 enjoyers got dropped" are in fact the people that got dropped, because system76 is great.
Well I would show them my Pangolin which has a touchpad that randomly stops working and the whole laptop grinds to a halt for no apparent reason.. Support has been mostly useless but I will give them one last chance.
get a framework. I cannot recommend it enough, I've had mine six months and it's been an absolute dream. (other than the touchpad breaking out of nowhere a week ago,, but they've already replaced it free of charge so that's not such a big deal imo)
Framework or Tuxedo Laptops
Think I will roll with Framework next. But also looking to max the frames out need the best mobile amd gpu which maybe in the Asus only? Probably their Linux support sucks..
don't get an asus. they've got terrible Linux support and their vapor chambers are designed to fail after a year and a half of ownership causing cooling to drastically decline in quality
My G14 is still going strong, and it's 4? 5? years old. I'm the second owner too.
What doesn't work under Linux? Backlight control, keyboard backlight (including RGB on other models) is well supported, anime matrix works too. I can easily set charge limits, fan speeds and power profiles.
My model doesn't have a webcam but the built in mics work well.
my Asus laptop required me to edit a file in the EFI partition to change the fan mode. not only that, half of the function keys didn't work on Linux and the back light didn't work at all. also, the audio didn't work
Had you installed anything from the ASUS Linux crew? https://asus-linux.org/
NixOS also have hardware modules for many laptops: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master
For my specific model: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/asus/zephyrus/ga401/default.nix
I believe my experience predates and/or was not compatible at the time with ASUS-linux
Admittedly that might be the issue, I feel I've walked into Linux at the right time. Lots of community support, knowledge being shared openly with great outcomes.
yeah. as someone that has daily driven linux (0 windows!) for four years, it has gotten unbelievably good recently
Sorry, I think I'm lacking context here. What is the problem with system76? A cursory search for problems with system76 tells me there are some Nvidia driver problems, but that's surely not unique, right?
I don't have experience with their hardware but I've been dailying pop os for about five years and have generally had no problems.
My Pangolin has a touchpad that randomly stops working after 5-10m and now the whole laptop also randomly grinds to a halt completely unrelated. Support told me to reconnect the touchpad myself but i have too much shit to do already..