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Linux system manufacturer System76 introduced a beautiful looking Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. But is Pop OS worth an install? Read the Pop OS review and find out yourself.
More at : https://itsfoss.com/pop-os-linux-review/
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Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS
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(Score: 3, Informative) by urza9814 on Wednesday January 17 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)
I bought a System76 four years ago...and I still think of it as "my new laptop". When I tell other people how old it is, they think I'm joking. It looks and feels like I got it last week. I don't care what the other vendors may offer, I'm not even gonna look, whenever I need to replace this thing I'm going straight back to System76.
It was an expensive system -- the Bonobo Extreme (BONX8), the biggest laptop they had at the time, and I maxed out most of the available options. Cost me around $2k. But four years later it still runs everything I throw at it, never had a hardware failure, never had a driver or compatibility issue (and I use Arch, not the preinstalled Ubuntu), never had any problems at all (except reduced battery lifespan, but that's unavoidable). Build quality is excellent and it is by far the most serviceable laptop I've ever seen. My last laptop was a ~$700 HP, and in less than two years it was so beat up that you'd pick it up and there would literally be bits of plastic dropping off -- I beat the hell out of these things. And it doesn't help that taking apart cheap laptops generally damages them further, and I can never resist popping them open. But the Bonobo doesn't show any wear at all in twice the time. And it's the only place where I have a spare 2.5" drive bay, so any time I need to extract data from one of those, I crack it open and install the drive internally. But it's all metal screws and heavy plastics, no flimsy little tabs and decorative bits, so you could pop it open a thousand times and never have a problem.
So yeah...if GHz/dollar is the only metric you care about, you might want to look elsewhere...but if you're willing to pay a bit of a premium for build quality and guaranteed compatibility, System76 definitely does deliver on those. I'm not going to say it's definitely worth the premium...that depends on how much you value your time, and probably how many times you've gotten burned by incompatible hardware. I don't think that's as much of an issue these days as it used to be, so maybe it's not so important. But I will say that System76 makes some seriously nice hardware.
(Score: 2) by hubie on Wednesday January 17 2018, @08:53PM
Thank you This is just the kind of feedback I'm looking for.