I'd be more concerned that the "rubber" part of the trackpoint would wear away over time... You don't have the problem with trackpads.

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Quoting: chr* USB-C as main charging port or bust.

Actually, I'd love to see a laptop just abandon USB "Type A" ports altogether in favor of (only) USB "Type C" ports...

Dunno about you, but I haven't seen any USB-C memory sticks on sale yet.

There's a couple around... The best one I have found is this one [External Link], which has both USB "Type A" and USB "Type C" connections (in the same memory stick / flash drive / thumb drive)!

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Quoting: chr* USB-C as main charging port or bust.

Actually, I'd love to see a laptop just abandon USB "Type A" ports altogether in favor of (only) USB "Type C" ports... Why the hell is everyone still making laptops with a million USB "Type A" ports and just one USB "Type C" port?

There are so many advantages to USB "Type C" its ridiculous, and "legacy" USB products (i.e. USB "Type A") work just fine with USB "Type C" to USB "Type A" adaptors, which are available for next to nothing... Or you could just buy a USB "Type C" hub like I did, but they're almost always incredibly over-priced.

Quoting: chr* 2-in-1 form factor with touch screen is pretty sweet for a portable laptop like this one.

Just get a Microsoft Surface Go, if you want a "2-in-1" with a touchscreen... Unless you're doing something pretty intensive, they're cheap-ish, lightweight, have excellent usage times / battery life and work flawlessly with most Linux-based operating systems.

Originally, I bought mine just for digital comics... But now I've had it for a few weeks, I use it all the time as both a Ubuntu tablet (e.g. for watching Disney+ or reading the news online) and as an "ultra portable" laptop (e.g. when I need to take some files with me, but don't want to lug my "real" laptop around).

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Quoting: ArehandoroWhich, by the way, I install Pop_OS on my gaming machine yesterday to give it a go and it seems pretty cool too

Yeah, it's pretty good right?

I tried Pop!_OS as soon as it came out of beta - before most people had even heard of it - because I was considering my options, since Canonical had abandoned Unity... At the time, Pop!_OS was mostly a cosmetic change, with a few little tweaks here and there - but those little tweaks were significant enough to make me think the distro has potential, particularly as an eventual replacement for Ubuntu (kinda like what happened with Red Hat Linux / Fedora back in the day).

From what I understand, System76 have since taken quite a few steps to make it more than "just a cosmetic change", so I highly recommend people have a look (and if you're using a System76 computer, I really don't understand why you would be using anything else!).

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Quoting: BoldosWhy oh why do they keep shoving Intell stuff down the consumer's throats? :><:
At that price level, Intel CPU (whith that GPU) cannot be really competitive against any AMD APU-based laptop (including the windows tax).

Quoting: gregfI want AMD not intel, and I want a good keyboard like on a think pad. Till then it's a no go for me.

I agree.

Whilst I prefer a laptop with NVIDIA components - primarily because I single-boot Linux and NVIDIA stuff is considerably better for everything graphics-related in the Linux world - I would take a pure AMD setup over a pure Intel setup any day of the week... Not a fan of all this love for Intel in recent times.

Quoting: Luke_NukemWhy do so many laptop photos have the laptop screen flat back like that? I don't understand the purpose.

Glad I'm not the only one that has often wondered this...

Quoting: holisticboyYup, and the AMDGPU support is built into the Kernel, so you don't need to configure any drivers out of the box! When I had my first gen Ryzen 2700u laptop part, it was working much better than the Windows equivalent due to this factor.

It wasn't always this way... Admittedly, it has been some years since I've used an AMD laptop - I used them almost exclusively until 2012-ish and then gave up - but all the AMD laptops I had used up to that point required a bit of work to get them to play nice, usually with sub-standard performance afterwards (in comparison to similar laptops with NVIDIA components).

This is a great step in the right direction - Intel and NVIDIA are gods when it comes to Linux, but they have too much power (which hurts competition, among other things), and neither is especially trustworthy or "open"...

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I guess it's too soon to suggest "Plague Inc: Evolved" then... /s

Oh, you're talking about free games? Well maybe "Plague Inc: Evolved" shouldn't be on this list.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI also wonder what range the price is going to be at.

Considering System76 are basically the equivalent of Apple in the Linux world, I wouldn't hold your breath for this to be reasonably priced... It's going to be ridiculously over-priced, just like their computers.

Quoting: NanobangOf course the Steam Controller is still the best controller ever made ... :P

Nope, Sony's DUALSHOCK 4 is where it's at! ;-)

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Quoting: RoosterI want to like it, but I just don't see the point of it. For gaming, I can buy a laptop without OS for similar price with dedicated GPU.

This.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI can't stand Outlook, but love Evolution.

So much wasted potential.

Evolution looks like an e-mail client from the '90s, and there is still plenty of functionality that needs to be added... I really wish they'd do more to work on it.

Mozilla's Thunderbird is nice, but it lacks certain functionality without extensions,

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Quoting: GuestGNOME is awesome. Clearly the best DE.

I preferred Unity, by a big margin... Not a fan of GNOME.

Tried Cinnamon (via Linux Mint) for a while, but I found the Microsoft Windows-style UI annoying, so I'm reluctantly going back to GNOME... None of the other DEs seem all that different or tweak my interest.

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