I am curious if the fact that a lot people use pop os on hardware other than system76 hardware is detrimental or helpful towards the development of the OS and the workload of the devs. Like if the number of users of pop os on different hardware configs increases, is that helpful for the devs considering that it may increase the number of bugs and hence result in an increase in worload
Can’t speak to whether it’s helpful for the system76 devs, but I use it on a dell xps and it’s awesome. Mostly just in it for the window manager though.
There are some tricky things to navigate hardware wise (fingerprint reader, etc.) but those type of things are compatibility issues across all distros. In my case, and often with other hardware, the manufacturer or the community does release drivers to support nix platform, but you may have to build from source. You know, typical linux stuff.