Quoting: GuestI've always wanted to buy just a Thelio case - the wood grain totally works for me. This.. not really. So close but still out of reach.

You know you can change the accent right? You can get the one with the wood grain instead.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ahoneybunI think the bad experience that bad NVIDIA drivers had (and can still have from time to time) has left a mark on folks so they won't try it again.

And the rest of what you say suggests the plan is to ignore those folks and hope they go away instead of buying your kit. That plan is likely to be successful, but I would have thought not really optimal from the point of view of a hardware sales company.

That's not true at all, there has been movement to off AMD options for laptops like the Pangolin but the desktops (Thelio) have had AMD options from day 1.

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Quoting: ahoneybun

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI would hope Kubuntu does some of the work setting this up, as it's sold from a Linux company.

Speaking for System76 we do a lot of work to get switching to work correctly so I know it can be done for this system as well.

I hope it's not a terrible experience for users. In my experience, it will try to run the compositor with NVIDIA by default, which is a terrible idea on both X.org because it will stutter and kill your battery life, while on Wayland it probably won't stutter, but it'll break resume from suspend on GNOME for example. So the first step is to switch to using Intel primarily, and then switch to NVIDIA for specific situations like hardware decoding.

This is my experience from 1-2 years ago, mind you—things may have improved. At that time, you had to restart your entire desktop session if you wanted to switch to your discrete GPU completely—from the sounds of it, some distributions now have a graphical utility allowing you to switch GPUs on the fly. But it still doesn't switch automatically, right?

A reboot is still needed from what I have seen as some of the magic is kernel parameters but system76-power sure makes it a smooth process in my experience.

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Quoting: ArdjeA laptop with NVidia is a waste of money for someone who works with Linux.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ahoneybunDepending on the case this is incorrect, it can be helpful for AI/ML work, video work and gaming.

Gaming, eh?
Well . . . this website is called GamingonLinux. The people here are all about gaming, on Linux. Every. Single. Time an article shows up about some Linux-oriented hardware company releasing a laptop, including System76 ones, it seems to use NVidia. And Every. Single. Time. the comments are mostly not about the specific virtues of the laptop, but about "Why won't they use AMD? Why isn't there at least an AMD option?" And the opinion seems to run 90% in the direction of "NVidia is bad for gaming on Linux" and 10% "Well, NVidia is actually a decent/workable option". Very often many of these comments run along the lines of "I'd buy one of these if it had AMD instead of NVidia, too bad."

So, the Linux gaming community seems to disagree with you. Maybe they're totally wrong and it's just that everyone here is a bunch of idiots; certainly the point I'm making is technically a logical fallacy along the "appeal to authority" lines. But, balance of probabilities, I think it would be worth your while at System76 to investigate the possibility that your customer base could have a point. Even if you are sure they're a batch of fools, it might be worth thinking about selling them what they want to buy.

One thing to keep in mind is that people's problems with NVidia seem to be less about benchmarks and more about quality of life issues that crop up over time during use, something it's a little harder for a manufacturer to test for; sometimes you just have to take your customers at their word.

I think the bad experience that bad NVIDIA drivers had (and can still have from time to time) has left a mark on folks so they won't try it again. It's easy to forget that AMD once had just as bad drivers (still true if you want/need the Pro as you need a certain kernel to support it and distro). I'm of course going to be bias but I think once Pop!_OS came with the drivers builtin and Ubuntu followed things have been much better for NVIDIA + Linux, I use a NVIDIA GPU with Pop!_OS every day at work without no issues.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI would hope Kubuntu does some of the work setting this up, as it's sold from a Linux company.

Speaking for System76 we do a lot of work to get switching to work correctly so I know it can be done for this system as well.

Quoting: ArdjeA laptop with NVidia is a waste of money for someone who works with Linux.

Depending on the case this is incorrect, it can be helpful for AI/ML work, video work and gaming.

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This does look fire and it's on sale too! Great find!

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Very nice to see some Btrfs improvements and Apple M1 support now officially part of the kernel. I bet Linus has a hand personally with that last one.

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I've been reading some comments on social about how nothing has changed majorly from 6 to 7 and I'm like it doesn't need to? They have things down to a science and are making fixes for paper cut issues at this point and updating the base. Every new release doesn't need to redo the wheel if it is already great!

Anyway... awesome work as always elementary community! <3

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The main focus should allowing folks to play what they want where they want not telling them you can play only on this platform or that platform.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism@GeoGalvanic -- exactly, delete and insert are essential to programmers and vim users. I use home/end pgup pgdown all the time too though I admit their naming schema is confusing as to their function -- "First" and "Last" or "Beginning" and "End" would be more appropriate -- certainly pressing the "Home" key on a Linux computer doesn't open the "~/" "$HOME" directory.

At a second glance tthe pause/play doesn't have a mute or volume either so it feels incomplete if you are going to have those functions.

Fair point on having a tweaked hand and using the R Shift

You could but a Mute function on Layer 2 for the Play/Pause button and Volume up and down for the next and previous buttons if you wanted to. Right now those should be on Layer 2 for PgUp and PgDn.

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