The System76 Lemur Pro is light, thin, repairable, and upgradeable. It’s the best Linux laptop we’ve tested.

The System76 Lemur Pro is light, thin, repairable, and upgradeable. It’s the best Linux laptop we’ve tested.

  • Jo Miran
    50•1 year ago

    I just can’t get over the 1080p screen. It’s the one thing that’s always held me back from buying a System 76.

    • @[email protected]
      16•1 year ago

      The awful screen is one big reason I don’t use my System76 laptop more often. It’s the worst laptop screen I’ve ever seen, has terrible light bleed, and has a pink tint. And this is the warranty replacement they tried to charge me for. The first one had the same awful screen, but kept freezing on me randomly.

      And the damn thing STILL has hardware features that only work on Windows 10, five years later (like multi-finger trackpad gestures). I’ll take System76 seriously when they start putting good screens in their laptops and get rid of nvidia.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Really? I love the scream on my labtop. It isn’t super high resolution or anything but its readable in the sun and is pretty color actuate

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Multi finger trackpad gestures work fine on PopOS? I’ve had no issues with them on my XPS 13…

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          Great. I’m not using a Dell. I have a laptop from a company that supposedly supports Linux first. A company I will not be buying anything from in the future either.

    • folkrav
      10•1 year ago

      I’m curious. What do you prefer, some larger res with resolution scaling? How’s the scaling situation on DEs/WMs nowadays? Last I tried it, it was pretty abysmal. Admittedly it was years ago, but it used to be that mixed scaling wasn’t possible, so if my laptop was higher DPI and needed scaling, I’d need to run any external monitor with display scaling as well. I’ve avoided high DPI/display scaling on purpose for a while at this point because of it, and tend to prioritize usable pixel real estate.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•1 year ago

        I’m using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Dell XPS 13 9360 with a 3300x1800 13" screen and Wayland, and it works fine. There was one application (Sublime Merge) where I had to edit some scaling configuration settings, and there’s one tray-based tool (Jetbrains Toolbox) that comes up tiny, but for everything else the global scaling setting in KDE has done a fine job. It also handles dual monitors with different resolutions.

        I don’t like 1080 screens because small text becomes unreadable more quickly on them. It’s less of an issue with a small screen, but it still counts against a machine for me.

        • folkrav
          2•1 year ago

          Whatever works for you haha. Admittedly, I’m the kind of guy that’s running a 34" ultra wide + two 22" monitors on top, and is looking at replacing them with a single 42-43" 4k monitor right now just to have the equivalent of a bezelless 2x2 grid of 21" monitors lol. And they’re all budget/business monitors. So I may not be a reference on display quality… I’m obsessed with having tons of things on screen at once. The ADHD object permanence issues (“out of sight, out of mind” is my default state) might have something to do with it…

          I’ll have to check it out again then, if display scaling got better since.

      • @[email protected]
        10•1 year ago

        Also a great way to get more performance and increase battery life. On a laptop, most folks would be hard pressed to see the difference between 1080p and a higher resolution.

      • Jo Miran
        2•1 year ago

        That’s the odd part. I run Pop!_OS on a ThinkPad with a 4K touch screen at 175% scaling and it looks beautiful. The scaling on the DE is superb. I don’t understand why they don’t offer a HiDPI option on their laptops.

        • folkrav
          2•1 year ago

          And it works fine with multiple monitors at different scaling ratios, or does it scale them all the same? That’s the actual part that didn’t work correctly for me, back then.

          • Jo Miran
            2•1 year ago

            No problem. I have three screens, the built-in at 175%, the attached 1440p at 100% and the 1080p also at 100%.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        My 2018er Thinkpad x1 carbon has 1920x1080 and runs over 10 hours. And has better hw suppport than this “Linux Laptop”.

    • @Acters
      1•1 year ago

      Is it possible to buy a display off some marketplace with the same connector, and hopefully, the display controller plays nice with the motherboard?

      • Jo Miran
        9•1 year ago

        I guess, but at that point you might as well get a different laptop rather than void the warranty if the System 76.

        • @[email protected]
          6•1 year ago

          Upgrading/tinkering doesn’t void your warranty. Explicitly.

          And their customer service is top notch. I thought I bricked my gazelle when I upgraded the memory, but their customer service walked me through how to fix it - didn’t even bat an eye.

          • @[email protected]
            5•1 year ago

            Upgrading/tinkering doesn’t void your warranty. Explicitly.

            This is generally true with everything in the USA (covered by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act) even though companies are sketchy about it and try to convince people that it’ll void their warranty. The manufacturer has to prove that your upgraded part was the direct cause of the issue you’re trying to claim under warranty.

            • @[email protected]
              3•1 year ago

              I did not know that - my point is that system76 is not at all sketchy about it. They actively encourage tinkering, make it clear that you won’t void your warranty, and have extensive technical documentation to explain how to do upgrades etc