I happily paid a premium to System76 for their Linux laptop. Then I took a calculated risk and replaced their Ubuntu distribution with CentOS 7. I've had smal

I happily paid a premium to System76 for their Linux laptop. Then I took a calculated risk and replaced their Ubuntu distribution with CentOS 7. I've had small hardware troubles (the biggest being video initialization during boot - sometimes it just locks up at a black screen; power cycle eventually resolves the issue, which does not recur until the next power cycle) - but my biggest troubles come from my employer's enthusiastic embrace of proprietary Microsoft protocols. For which I use the company issued Windows 7 machine, and the Mac users get a virtual machine image.