I have the following System 76:
Desktop: Thelio
- Memory: 64 GiB
- Processor: AMD® Ryzen 9 7900x3d 12-core processor × 24
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 / NVIDIA Corporation
- Disk Capacity: 4.0 TB (2 NVMe)
Laptop: Pangolin (pang-15)
- Memory: 96 GiB
- Processor: AMD® Ryzen 9 8945hs w/ radeon 780m graphics x 16
- Graphics: AMD Radeon 780m graphics
- Disk Capacity: 3.1 TB (2 NVMe)
Laptop: Pangolin (pang-13)
- Memory: 32 GiB
- Processor: AMD® Ryzen 7 7735u with radeon graphics × 16
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon graphics
- Disk Capacity: 2.0 TB (1 NVMe)
I use Cosmic DE on the Pangolin-13 for testing. The Pangolin-15 is closer to the Macbook build, more durable. I beat both of these things up everyday and not had any issues. You won’t get the battery life like the Macbook, but I like that it has actual full USB ports. The Pangolin-15 I use a USB-C dongle for 2.5GB networking but does have a 1GB network jack. As for the desktop, it is hammered 24x7 on encoding AV1, development during the day.
Only gripe I still have is the fingerprint reader. That was handy on the Mac, both laptops have the sensor and you can spend time getting it to work, but it’s not usable out of the box with Pop!_OS at the moment. I hope they do something about that in the future. What I do is Bitwarden with Passkey and Yubico, SoloKeys.
System 76 keyboards I find the best, for me anyways. They are metal, heavy quality builds. I have all 3, using the Launch Heavy for desktop, Launch for laptop and the Launch Lite for data center server stuff as it moves around a lot. Mouse is a Logitich MX Master 3S.
Some of my experiances with software I’m using PopOS! & Mac Software I Use
Moving to Linux took some time in regards to desktop and apps, but after I did can’t go back to anything else. I’m not going to go into my drama of using the others as I’ve let those behind and my life is better – Freedom.
I think the closest equivilent to System 76 in Europe is https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ but System 76 Desktops, OS I prefer.
