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3 weeks with a Linux Laptop | System76 Lemur Pro Review (lemp10) - YouTube
Channel: Side Of Burritos
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so i started using my system 76 lemur
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pro on december 18 2021 which means i've
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been using it for approximately three
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weeks as of the time of this recording i
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want to go over my experience with the
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laptop thus far starting with an
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overview of my impressions of the
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hardware as compared to my apple laptop
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i was using previously and then lastly i
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want to talk about the operating system
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i've been using and how the adjustment
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has been from using mac os as my daily
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driver to now using linux so i'm going
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to start with the good about the
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hardware i've used linux in the past and
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i'm pretty familiar with it from working
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as a linux system administrator at a
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hosting company in a previous job i also
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run my home base the linux server and
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have messed with various flavors of
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linux over the years for this reason the
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software wasn't as big of a concern to
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me as i knew i could adjust and hit a
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solid base to resolve any issues that
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might come up but my biggest concern was
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the hardware i've truly been spoiled
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using an apple laptop for the past 9
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years to this day i still believe that
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apple has the best hardware feel free to
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prove me wrong in the comments what
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further restricted my hardware choices
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was that i was looking for something a
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little more open their laptops run core
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boot which is a free software project
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aimed at replacing proprietary bios
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found on most computers and more than
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likely the one you're using right now to
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watch this video for this reason i was
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more than happy to entertain the thought
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of purchasing one of their laptops i
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settled on the lemur pro because from
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what i read and saw it seemed solid from
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a hardware perspective it also supports
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the other big thing which i needed which
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was dual display output this laptop
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doesn't have a dedicated gpu but i don't
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do any gaming so that really wasn't a
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deal breaker for me so this laptop
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weighs 2.4 pounds 1.09 kilograms and has
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a 14.1 inch display or 35.81 centimeters
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it's light it's kind of insanely light
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actually the material it's made out of
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is a magnesium aluminum alloy which for
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lack of a better term feels cheap when
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you first touch it until you realize
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it's extremely strong
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i used to have a cup made out of
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titanium don't ask why and this material
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reminds me of that same feeling you
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touch it and you feel like you might
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break or bend it but that just will not
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happen it's also pretty sexy looking if
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i do say so myself you first notice the
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quality when you open the laptop for the
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first time this is not a one finger open
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laptop now what do i mean by that
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you will need one hand to hold the base
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of the laptop and the other to open the
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screen these are some seriously stiff
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hinges my macbook is designed in a way
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where it's one finger open but honestly
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i would rather have it stiff than a
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floppy screen would one finger open be
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nice
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sure i guess but i like how it is it's
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also worth noting that you can open it
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pretty far
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so far that it actually goes flat
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another thing i was worried about was
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keyboard flex the laptop i had before my
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switch to a macbook was a lenovo if you
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picked it up by the corner it would bend
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like one of those folders you would use
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in school i was afraid to move it around
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or take it anywhere it just felt cheap
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it was better as a desktop that never
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experienced any movement
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with the lemur it's stiff as a rock you
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can pick it up by the corner and it
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doesn't move this is exactly what i was
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looking for
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i was used to the same kind of quality
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from my macbooks so i was happy to see
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this the keyboard is surprisingly good i
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actually like it better than my macbook
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keyboard well maybe not better the key
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travel distance is nice so it's actually
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really comfortable to type on and the
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keys don't feel cheap like they'll pop
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off the keyboard is also backlit so that
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is another huge plus if you've ever
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typed in a dark room or poorly lit room
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you'll know how beneficial that can be
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that brings us to the top of the screen
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to the webcam
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it is not that great it's okay but
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here's a comparison of my macbook air
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which also has a lousy webcam i'll let
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you be the judge the screen resolution
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is 1920x1080 nothing groundbreaking here
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but it's perfect for my use cases as i
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mentioned earlier most of the time i'm
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using dual external monitors and when i
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do use my laptop screen 1920x1080 is all
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i need if you do a lot of gaming this
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might not be for you it's a matte
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display which i really like to me those
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have always been better for outside use
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and just in general compared to the
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glossy display that is on a mac the
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battery is very very impressive i get
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around 8-10 hours of use out of it there
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are more in-depth reviews out there on
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the battery life so i'm not going to go
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into it too much but it is way more than
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enough for what i need and if the
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battery life ever decreases enough you
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can always replace it yourself using the
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instructions on the system 76 website
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now let's talk about the bad i'm not a
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huge fan of the trackpad i've seen other
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posts online saying the trackpad is good
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but maybe i was just spoiled with a
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haptic feedback apple trackpad in case
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you don't know what that is the trackpad
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doesn't actually click or have any
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movement at all but it emulates the
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click by vibrating in the spot that you
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pressed
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it's amazing to use and since the
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trackpad isn't actually clicking you can
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click anywhere and it worked perfectly
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since the entire thing is a sensor on
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the lemur the corners flex a little bit
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and it makes some noise
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i don't know if you can hear but when
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you do click it's kind of noisy and
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honestly sounds a little cheap
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i fixed this by using tap to click but
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it would be nice to have a better
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quality trackpad
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now when it comes to ports this thing is
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loaded
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but this is just me nitpicking i don't
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know if i would call this bad but i wish
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it had one more usbc port it only has
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one
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so that kind of stinks but compared to
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my macbook air which had two usbc ports
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and moments for charging this thing is a
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beast
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the logo on top looks really good
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but sadly it's just a sticker it seems
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like a very tough sticker so i hope it
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doesn't come off
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but something actually molded into the
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case would be nice now that brings us to
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the absolute worst hardware feature of
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this laptop the speakers i used to have
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an old nokia flip phone and it sounded
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pretty similar to this i understand this
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is a laptop i'm not looking for a boom
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box but here's a comparison just so you
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can hear how terrible they sound
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compared to a macbook air
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[Music]
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but again i didn't buy a laptop like
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this for the speakers they are more than
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usable but i just wanted to highlight
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that in case you decide to get this
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laptop so you are not surprised i will
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say that i don't use this laptop to test
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my audio playback for my videos because
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honestly anything good will sound bad
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and anything bad will just sound bad so
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it's not very useful for that so that's
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my feedback on the hardware let's talk
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about the software i started this laptop
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with popos installed which is the system
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76 disk drill because i wanted to give
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it a try popos is easy to set up and
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full disk encryption is enabled by
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default it also has a package installer
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called edward and from my experience it
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works a lot better than the ubuntu one
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i've had some issues in the past with
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the ubuntu package installer resolving
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dependencies maybe that was just my
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experience but edward never failed if
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you've ever used ubuntu popos is
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everything i hoped ubuntu would be
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without all the extra work to customize
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ubuntu and set it up how you want i
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think most people could use it as is and
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it would be especially beneficial for
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the people who are afraid to make the
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leap to linux because of some of the
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horror stories they've heard out of all
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the flavors of linux i used over the
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years i think popos reminds me of mac in
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the sense of it just works
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i hate to say it that way but it's true
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i'm pretty sure i could give this laptop
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to my mom who is not very technical
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sorry mom and after a few hours of
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showing her where things are she could
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adapt to it so after using this linux
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laptop for three weeks i am fully
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adjusted and will be sticking with it i
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have all my necessary apps installed
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which i may cover in another video the
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transition was honestly pretty quick
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even after being a mac user for years
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full disclosure i still have a mech mini
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because i use final cut pro to edit my
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videos could i edit my videos my linux
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laptop yes i could but i really like
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final cut pro i put a lot of time into
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using it and i don't feel like having to
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research and learn something new right
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now another commenter also asked what
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the mining rate was on this laptop so
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here's the xm rig output showing the
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hash rate so while popos is great i have
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commitment issues and when things are
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going perfect might as well switch it up
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i'm thinking of giving manjaro a try
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based on some comments i saw in a recent
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video of mine it's an arch-based distro
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so i'm curious how that will work i've
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been running it in virtualbox on pop os
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for the last few days and i really like
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it since this laptop has two nvme slots
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for drives i think i'm just going to
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install another drive to run alongside
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my popos install if you want to see a
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look inside this laptop and my unboxing
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video i'll post those on the screen
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right now and if you have any questions
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or comments feel free to leave those
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