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My friend had a Purism, which was a frustrating experience in many ways. And it was quite expensive. I am a very happy customer of System76. I got a Galago. Te
by geophile 7y ago
My friend had a Purism, which was a frustrating experience in many ways. And it was quite expensive.
I am a very happy customer of System76. I got a Galago. Ten days later, the Darter was released. I returned the Galago, got the Darter, no problems whatsoever. And support has been excellent.
The Darter, running Pop OS is an extremely nice machine: Great keyboard, good touchpad; although a bit too sensitive while using the keyboard; good screen; and Pop OS is a beautiful and stable OS.
My daily driver had been a 2015 MBP, but the newer MBPs are extremely disappointing. The Darter provides so much more for the money.
- m463 7y agoI have a purism, and it has been great. One wonderful thing was really standard hardware. Like standard screws, standard power adapter with normal barrel jack, standard memory, standard flash slot, standard 2.5" hard drive bay and standard screws. All the hardware was chosen so no binary blobs were required. Later I installed arch linux on it (which I like immensely) One challenge was trying to figure out exactly what hardware I really had, but I muddled through. It would have been nice to have a table from day one showing every detail, such as screen resolution, touchpad model, exact wireless chipset, etc. It would also have been nice to have sane defaults for things like the touchpad. Apple trackpads really spoil you - they are by default very well tuned, and you get precise control without glitches like movements during typing.