Well I would show them my Pangolin which has a touchpad that randomly stops working and the whole laptop grinds to a halt for no apparent reason.. Support has been mostly useless but I will give them one last chance.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Get a framework one instead.

[–] moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago

get a framework. I cannot recommend it enough, I've had mine six months and it's been an absolute dream. (other than the touchpad breaking out of nowhere a week ago,, but they've already replaced it free of charge so that's not such a big deal imo)

[–] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I think I'm lacking context here. What is the problem with system76? A cursory search for problems with system76 tells me there are some Nvidia driver problems, but that's surely not unique, right?

I don't have experience with their hardware but I've been dailying pop os for about five years and have generally had no problems.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

My Pangolin has a touchpad that randomly stops working after 5-10m and now the whole laptop also randomly grinds to a halt completely unrelated. Support told me to reconnect the touchpad myself but i have too much shit to do already..

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Framework or Tuxedo Laptops

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Think I will roll with Framework next. But also looking to max the frames out need the best mobile amd gpu which maybe in the Asus only? Probably their Linux support sucks..

[–] Lumu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

If you care about upgradability and replacable parts the Framework is awesome, I love mine so far. But you can get a laptop with better parts for cheaper otherwise, so it's probably worth just finding something that just has a compatible architecture if that aspect of the Framework isn't a major thing for you. But also I'm typing this after drinking half a bottle of wine so honestly just ignore this entire comment, I don't want the pressure of you making a financial decision based on this. Ok bye.

[–] moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

don't get an asus. they've got terrible Linux support and their vapor chambers are designed to fail after a year and a half of ownership causing cooling to drastically decline in quality

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

My G14 is still going strong, and it's 4? 5? years old. I'm the second owner too.

What doesn't work under Linux? Backlight control, keyboard backlight (including RGB on other models) is well supported, anime matrix works too. I can easily set charge limits, fan speeds and power profiles.

My model doesn't have a webcam but the built in mics work well.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

ASUS laptops have a great community behind them.

https://asus-linux.org/

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

In that case I may go Asus once the next super fast Amd cpu+gpu lands. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 hours ago

my previous laptop was a tuxedo.

Was not very happy with it. (build quality not very good and the hardware support was not as 100% linux compatible as they claim).

At least their support is very good