Is the System76 Pangolin the Linux laptop you've been looking for? 

When it's ready and stable, definitely!

We need more companies like these

@@al-Interpol Most of these Linux Hardware companies are overpriced. Best is you build your own desktop tower DIY and put there in Tuxedo OS or Pop OS. If you are german go for Tuxedo OS since that is an Linux where you will not find any english word whatsoever, pure german, if that is important for you. For foreigners they are slowly fed up will all the anglization going on and the own pure language is ever more important I feel. People are fed up with english words in their language so they will go back to pure english free languages. And Tuxedo OS is such an Linux Distro in german which is completely free of any english word. There is already too much english forced upon other nations worldwide. People are just getting fed up with that violation of other languages.

I haven't used Tuxedo OS, thanks for the tip

@@TheGadgetMonkeyOG If you asked me, I would not be surprised if Tuxedo OS is by leaps and bounds better than Pop OS or other Distros. It looks way more professional and not as childish than other Distros. Maybe that does the KDE Plasma skin. Yesterday I saw a Video with Pop OS and Ubuntu screenshots and find they looks rather like an Console or in game design from the 1990's. Tuxedo OS looks rather mainstream professional like Windows 11 or such. No childish like Apps and stuff. Just my impression. Some say that is caused by the KDE Plasma skin. Actually there is no learning curve needed to switch between Windows and Tuxedo OS - that similar they are. I installed Tuxedo for an elderly person and immediately in 30 Minutes that person knew to use it for full like they used on Windows 10 which I erased. User friendlyness I would not be surprised would be huge time better on Tuxedo OS than on all other Distros. I would not be surprised if Tuxedo would be today the best Distro there is due to be vastly more user friendly than all other Distros.

If you will be looking at laptops again, check out Framework. Their laptops are expensive because they're a small company but their laptops are what you want in a laptop; upgradeable & repairable

Thanks Dave. Enjoy the Pangolin!

@magnanova good recommend, thanks. How much does that build work out at?

@@TheGadgetMonkeyOG The FW16 is 1700 USD for the same RAM & SSD so you get what you pay for. The FW16 has better LCD, battery, webcam, fingerprint sensor, upgradability & repairability. You can even add a dGPU. I really like System76 and I would have bought a Pangolin years ago if they'd use more than a mediocre LCD.

@@magnanova That's decent. I use an external monitor most of the time, so the display isn't a huge concern, but I'm certainly watching FW for my next laptop.

Laptop screens are so small that frankly anything above 1080p is just a waste. You get worse graphics performance and worse battery life for virtually no benefit. I can understand on a computer monitor, but really, I can't remember the last time I saw blurry text or pixels on a laptop. I will say though the 300 nits 60hz is a downer. High refresh rate makes a HUGE difference, even on phones.

It's a good style, to be sure. Fingerprint readers have definitely improved - a must-have for a future laptop purchase.

No it's not. Why do you think it is?

I can sympathise with that, but I feel as though I lost that battle years ago. Grateful it actually has an ethernet at this point.

@jordixboy that's all fair point. I've also noticed with some use, the plastic around the hinges needs to be popped back in (by about 2mm) when opening. This isn't a deal breaker for me. I once owned an ASUS that fell apart 1 month after the warranty ended. The hinges had been slowly grinding away the plastic of the casing until the screen just came off. In terms of build quality, to that laptop the System76 is vastly superior.

It's not particularly heavy, but I appreciate your other points.

Maybe true once, but with mature desktop environments, I don't think it is now. I certainly spend way more time tweaking and fixing things on the family Windows laptop than I do on Ubuntu.

@@TheGadgetMonkeyOG Stop futzing around with crappy operating systems. Linux users are like the guy who spends his weekends working on his Camaro but takes a bus to work on the weekdays. Life is too short to configure operating systems. You deserve better! Move on to the big league: MacOS. You can get incredibly powerful Intel Macs these days for around $200 or less on the used market.

@@bobweiram6321 I literally do zero configuring. It's already done. But it so happens I've just reviewed a MacBook Air, so stay tuned...

Anyone can use Linux, my mom and girlfriend are not tech savvy and can use it...​@@bobweiram6321

@@bobweiram6321 When was the last time you used Linux? That stereotype went out of fashion a few ago already & nowadays setting up a Linux distro takes as much or less time as setting up Windows