I've been using a System76 Darter with Pop OS for over a year now, through, I think, four releases. Everything about the hardware and software has been wonderfu

I've been using a System76 Darter with Pop OS for over a year now, through, I think, four releases. Everything about the hardware and software has been wonderful. I decided to abandon Apple MBPs due to software regressing in both design and implementation, and the execrably bad hardware design decisions lately (touchbar, butterfly keyboard, greatly increased fragility to obtain marginally lighter and thinner cases). For similar specs, the Darter was far cheaper, (and, in fact, 32GB hasn't been available on an MBP until recently). And System76 support is stellar, for both hardware and software. I have been using Linux for 20 years now, and the System76 hardware/software combination is the best I've experienced. Wifi just works. Printing just works. Power management just works. I have not yet found myself diving down Stack Overflow and google rabbit holes trying to solve obscure configuration problems. Apple is turning into 90s-era Microsoft and System76 is turning into early 2000s Apple. Which is terrible for Apple customers, and great for System76 customers. System76 is focusing on extremely polished hardware/sofwtare integration. Now their hardware is not in the same league as Apple's -- they resell someone's hardware. But the integration is excellent, and they are starting to design (and manufacture?) their own hardware. They'll get there. The one thing that Apple still has over System76 is integration with all of their other devices and services. I still have an iPhone, and I still have to have an Apple computer for syncing it, and managing my iTunes media. But for day-to-day computer use, and for software development, System76 is what I use.