image with baked in nvidia drivers which work out of the box without too much fuss
if you encounter problems, you can refer to the system76 website or use a solution provided by the community, since it's based on Ubuntu
installation with full disk encryption enabled by default
right now it uses a slightly customized version of GNOME as DE (with "normal"/traditional windows and optionally a tiling wm), but system76 is working on a Rust-based DE, named Cosmic DE
I agree, it's great!