I switched from my 2015 MBP to a System76 Darter Pro, and I've been very happy with it. (The MBP was dying, and the new MBPs had the execrable touchbar, and the

I switched from my 2015 MBP to a System76 Darter Pro, and I've been very happy with it. (The MBP was dying, and the new MBPs had the execrable touchbar, and the broken keyboard.) There are no good iPhone alternatives. I now don't trust either Google or Apple on privacy, for different reasons. As a practical matter, Apple is probably better for me, as I find it very unlikely that governments forcing Apple to do their bidding are going to be interested in me, personally. I am relying on the Apple cloud, and I hate it. I have mp3 files for all my music, and I will soon stop relying on Apple for music completely. I take photos on my phone, and they go to the cloud. I think I'm stuck there, but again, I do have my own copies (via download to my wife's Mac). Ideally, I could get photos from my phone to my Linux laptop directly, but I don't know of a good way to do that.