Finally System 76 is bringing Ryzen to the table with Integrated AMD Graphics.
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The new Pango10 seems to be a rebranded Eluketronics THINN-15 like chassis. But is quite a bit more expensive and havms half the battery life.
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Code name for the new Pangolin Laptop is Pango10. Itās listed in the spec sheet.
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I just love my thinkpad. Iāve tried so many other computers, and the keyboards are just not as good. If someone else would make a computer that typed this well Iād look at other computers. Iād love to support a linux computer company. . .
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Elitebooks are pretty good. They even have the trackpoint
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Itās not really a linux company though. At that point, Iād just keep buying thinkpads. Iāve already got 2 thinkpads, one older x1 Carbon all intel for home and travel. And a cheap Ryzen E455 for work (cheap windows cpu) and Iām looking to replace my āhomeā Dell computer with a Thinkpad X1 Extreme eventually.
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Dear ricklinux,
Iāve always been afraid to buy a System76 computer even though I would really like to.
The reason is that Iām afraid of replacing Ubuntu or Pop!_OS with another operating system, specifically EndeavourOS.
I am aware that some System76 drivers are available in the AUR. Frankly, the fact that System76 seems to have their own drivers bothers me.
Does anyone reading this have any experience with running EnOS on a System76 computer? I would be very interested in hearing of their experiences, both with Intel as well as with Ryzen.
Lawrence
Why would this bother you? From what I can see, they all have to do with managing the hardware of their laptops.
Correct. Then wouldnāt they be āproprietary?ā
If one replaces Windows completely with EnOS on a āregularā computer (Dell, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, etc.), in general the drivers included with the machines all work with whatever Linux OS one chooses to install (providing it is not one of those which use only free software).
But I donāt know what would happen if I installed EnOS on a System76 computer (assuming I did not install the drivers from the AUR or if those AUR drivers were not updated when necessary).
Thatās what bothers me.
Lawrence
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Sure, but I donāt think proprietary is inherently bad in this case as they have all these drivers open-sourced on github. I donāt have a System76 laptop, but Iām sure theyād work just fine out of the box with a different distro like most other laptops when you slap Linux on them. But, just like many other laptops, if you want better control of your hardware on Linux, you need to install hardware specific drivers.
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Nope. The AUR packages are all OSS. Actually, the entire laptop firmware uses Coreboot, an open-source bios. A system76 machine is as OSS as you can get without going full .
The only drivers necessary are the backlight one. The rest are Gnome-shell extensions that you donāt really need.
It will work just fine.
The drivers are maintained and packaged by System76 directly. They are always on point.
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Well then I hope you got the Fedora certified Thinkpads then. Though, they donāt seem to offer Ryzen fedora certified machines.
I would kill for a Ryzen 4000 CPU and AMD Radeon GPU Linux certified machine. Though, I still donāt know how to set up AMD switchable graphics. With that said, Optimus Manager seems to be working on getting AMD GPUs working so thatās great. Edit: nvm, you guys just made a wiki post for that. Niice!
@lhb1142
Hereās the experience from one of our users with System76. This is before they offered any Ryzen laptops. I have been bugging them to come out with some hardware to include Ryzen with AMD graphics. Now itās happening.
Thanks to jiibus, SuppaMan, and ricklinux for replying to me with concise and good answers.
Because of my concerns, I have never bought a System76 computer but, now that ZaReason is officially ādead,ā and as i want to support a āLinux-onlyā computer seller, I think that I will buy one of theirs the next time I need a new computer (though I hope that that wonāt be for a few years into the future).
Thanks very much again.
Lawrence
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In addition to System76 have a look at
Fedora or Ubuntu cert Thinkpads
Starlabs
SLimbooks
Juno Computers
Tuxedo computers
According to the press release in July, ALL Thinkpads should be certified with Ubuntu, RHEL, and Fedora at this point. They are not all available pre-built, but they should be certified with all of them.
Regardless, if anyone wants a Ryzen Thinkpad, I can personally say the T495 (3000 series) works great with Endeavour and Debian (backports kernel) and T14 (AMD) (4000 series) works great with Endeavour.
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I do not. They literally just started selling them.
I have a Dell 7548, A 3rd gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and a Thinkpad E455. I believe all are from 2015. I have paid a grand total of less than $600 for all 3 of them including all upgrades and repairs. The only Ryzen computer is the E455 unfortunately. I have had a number of AMD computers in the past and have always really loved them. The last new computer I purchased was a Compaq Back in 2005 when I went off to college that promptly was stolen from my dorm. I only had enough money for used and gifted computers until recently, but I just donāt like most of the computers I see anymore, and the ones I do are like $1500+. Iām to the point now, Arch/Endeavour works so well. . . why bother with a new computer? If I were to buy one, it would be to support someone I care about. BUT, the product still needs to be worth paying for. I donāt want to buy a nice expensive new computer that I end up liking less than my $380 X1 Carbon, and I would be furious if it didnāt type as nice as my $68 E455. . .
I had an HP with AMD that was an utterly fantastic computer. I have had a number of hand me down Dellās over the years. And Even my first real laptop - my compaq I āboughtā for someone else, was AMD. Iāve always prefered AMD to others.
This is precisely on my radar. . . Come on offerup. . . Iāll get one eventually. Any Thinkpad that ends in xxx5! Come on AMD
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If you like to have it ram-heavy, just make sure to get one with 16GB soldered. The T495 was the first common (AMD) thinkpad that has only a singular DIMM for memory, so if you get one that has 8GB soldered, youāre stuck with the 8/12/16/24/40, no balanced dual-channel other than 16GB total.
Iām actually trying to find a decent priced L14 (AMD) w/ 1080P, since that still has dual DIMMs (and get rid of my Latitude 7410).
So. . . I really want a T485s? Does that exist? And 12 - 24 ram is plenty for me realistically. I rarely go over like 5-6 when using any of my computers.