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I bought the 2018 air. I loathe it. What a waste of money and junk keyboard.

That said my new job gave me a System 76 laptop and I’ve been delighted all week with it. I don’t care for the offset keyboard but at least it actually works correctly. If it had better palm detection on the trackpad it would be the best laptop I’ve owned since my 2013 MBP (which is still goin strong).

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Based on my experience with PopOS on my desktop system, I've been eyeing the System76 laptops. I think they are re-badged Cleo laptops presently, but they have plans for their own hardware. Assuming the hardware is as thoughtful as the distro, I'll be ordering one.

I hear you, trackpads have kept me in Mac camp for awhile. I loathe the glass ones Apple switched to though. I bought the 13 inch with emjoi bar when it came out. Returned it. Recently bought the 16inch when it came out. Like the new keyboard but ended up returning it as it got insanely loud when plugging in external display.

Hard to beat my 2013 mbp retina I guess I’ll stay with it for now.

My previous job gave me a 2019 MBP and it was always whirring away. It would have spells where nothing would be stable. IntelliJ (Ruby mine) would hang for a couple seconds every 20-30 seconds, zoom would crash repeatedly and say there was an error with the system audio and if it would start back up with out restarting the system everyone would sound like they were a robot. I installed boom audio (which is one step away from adware / malware these days) and it surprisingly got more stable.

I’m excited to try windows with WSL2 soon. I don’t see going back to a new Mac any time soon based on how easy PopOS / Ubuntu has been.

Curious - which System 76 laptop is it?

It’s the 16” oryx pro. 16gb ram.

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