I have no experience with Linux, but I’d like to give it a try. I’m looking at the System76 Meerkat and Thelio with the Pop!_OS option.
I don’t see myself gaming on it because I have a Windows machine for just that. I’d mostly be using it for learning Linux and doing basic things like web surfing and word processing (Libreoffice perhaps).
Any recommendations or advice? Thanks!
The fan curves are defined by the fan daemon witin the system76-power daemon. This source code in particular. You can install this on any Linux distribution.
Sorry to hear about the bad experience with support. I wonder when this was. I usually see comments praising the level of support that they received.
The issue with the Orxy Pro laptop may have been firmware-related, and fixed by a firmware update from the Firmware Manager application. Although QA performs a lot of sleep and suspend tests before certifying a new firmware release or product, so I’m not 100% sure. It’s possible that the system could have shipped from the factory with an older firmware version though.
We have engineers dedicated to open source firmware development, and they continue to maintain firmware for all systems we’ve ever released with open firmware. So firmware updates are more frequent than you’d typically expect from proprietary firmware. They’re currently working on implementing the SecureBoot feature for our open firmware models.