Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based.

But man, these framework laptops look cool too. Completely modular and easy to work on. Looks like the company has proved it isn’t going to go under anytime soon.

I’m debating what to get once I feel like upgrading from the trusty ol ThinkPad. What would you buy?

    • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
      12·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t even realise what the ‘76’ in the name was meant to be until that comment, thats really rather cheesy…

        • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
          17·
          1 year ago

          From wikipedia:

          The number 76 in the company name is a reference to 1776, the year the American Revolution took place. Richell explained that the company hoped to spark an “open source revolution”, giving consumers a choice to not use proprietary software.

            • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
              21·
              1 year ago

              I find it very weird and it feels very nationalist/right-wing. In other countries the USA does not bring the concept of “freedom” to mind and, whilst it may be fine to Americans, doesn’t really make me want to get involved with them as a potential international customer.

                • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
                  5·
                  1 year ago

                  Not that I think necessarily the left/right wing divide as we currently know it can be applied to history like that but I’m not so sure we can categorise the hyper-religious separatists as not being right wing at all. Either way, history isn’t the point here, the association many have of the kinds of people that tout “1776” everywhere tends to be the wife-beater wearing, massive pickup toting, 2fa enthusiasts obsessed with tramping people’s rights in the name of “muh freedums”.

                  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Everyone was religious back then if they wanted to have any success. You were either religious or pretended to be. Why do you think Thomas Paine is the only Founding Father not to have a monument.

    • thejevans@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      While I don’t like their current hardware options, they way they sell stuff, or Pop!_OS, their Virgo laptop could be promising and their new COSMIC desktop environment looks great so far. I hope they start to do other things right, but they have potential to nail both of those and they do contribute back to upstream projects, so I’m still glad they exist.

      • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org
        3·
        1 year ago

        What don’t you like about popos?

        I quite like it. Having used gnome, kde and even things like awesomwm or other des or window managers, pops de is quite nice

        • thejevans@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t like desktop environments and operating systems tied together so tightly. Their new desktop seems like it will be self contained and fairly OS agnostic. Debian is a great OS. If they wanted to release a distribution with improvements over debian, that’s fine. Then if they wanted to make pop-desktop easy to simply install and have improvements over vanilla gnome, also fine. Then I could judge the benefits of both over the vanilla variants of each. I have similar problems with Ubuntu.

          • MyNameIsFred@beehaw.org
            2·
            1 year ago

            That’s fair. It seems like pop_os is trying to be a DE, the rest of the parts (kernel, drivers, packaging system of choice etc) are just a means to that end.

            I wouldn’t consider pop for its kernel selection and immediately want to install AwesomeWM or something. For that I would just go straight Debian.