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Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?
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FWIW, I have a galp5, and had a lot of stability issues with Pop. I used it for well over a year, as I thought using their own OS on the machine they sold me would give the best results. Ultimately I spent a lot of time opening support tickets, and trying to work around issues (desktop stuttering, crashes, touchpad randomly would stop responding, etc). I did not find their support team particularly helpful. I finally installed stock Ubuntu, and it's been significantly more stable.
I don't plan to buy from them again. If I were buying now, I'd be looking at Framework (probably their upcoming, larger model with the dedicated GPU).