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I am rocking an Xiaomi Gaming Laptop (i7 9th, GeForce 2060, 32Gb Ram) with PopOS installed since day one. It is working fine (a bit annoyed because there is no way of finding a new battery for replacement), but I was thinking of switching to something more open source and with Linux officially supported.

Anyone here with an Adder WS (or any other System76 laptop)? How do you find yourself with it? Mainly curious about the battery life.

Thank you for reading.

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[–] surfrock66@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have had an s76 wild dog which was amazing for an 11 year run, and I just replaced that with a meerkat. I also have a thelio which has been flawless. System76's desktops are amazing.

In 2013 I bought a darter and it's the worst laptop I've ever owned. I went through 4 keyboards and still it doesn't work, also the wifi radio is under the keyboard and you get a 50% signal reduction when typing. It had one of those trapdoor Ethernet ports which broke, so I basically became a dead device. That is an old metric, but it scared me off from buying laptops from them until they get their own hardware pipeline for them.

[–] Sterben@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I choose to be between Adder WS (RTX 4060) and Pangolin. Pangolin would be a downgrade from my RTX 2060 though.

Thanks for sharing your opinion, very appreciated. 🤙