I'm late to the show, and also not a buyer, but I did work for System76 in a different department while they built this relationship. I can definitely say that

I'm late to the show, and also not a buyer, but I did work for System76 in a different department while they built this relationship. I can definitely say that the devone isn't just an Elitebook with a Linux sticker on it. System76 easily spent hundreds of hours testing Pop!_OS on the dev one and writing documentation for HP's support folks. From the start they knew it was their reputation going into this hardware and almost everybody in the company was part of making it as solid as they could. I know S76's reputation in the Linux laptop realm isn't pristine on Hacker News ("it's just a rebranded Clevo, yadda yadda"), but a lot more goes on behind the scenes than most people know or acknowledge, and they pulled out all the stops for the dev one. It's a great little AMD laptop and I think the big concern is if you like the screen. Everything else is pretty amazing.