No. Asahi unfortunately has a long way to go. Last I checked it didn't even have proper audio.

Ah shit, you're right, pardon my ignorance.

Yeah actually much better comparison.

I'm looking for a new laptop and really don't know much about hardware these days (been running my old 2015 toshiba sattellite lol, I usually just have hand-me-downs), but I'm looking at getting something that doesn't make me sacrifice my firstborn to an eldritch being to change the goddamn battery. So far I have sys76 and framework on the list, are there any other manufacturers I should also look at? And any reasons I should or should not get a laptop from any of these companies (like this one above, which is a point for framework)?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Mac are only competitive on the smallest configuration, as you start to add the same options to each the Mac pricing goes through the roof while this one's price will only increase by a bit.

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

They sell laptops with 4k screens.

IIRC it’s something about not actually going to S3 sleep to keep stuff like networking alive

Your CPU never actually sleeps, it stays in S0 (on). The CPU is still active and doing things, but it's in a "low power state".

In quotes because it's not low power at all. On one of my laptops S0 standby gets worse battery life than just actually being on.

I have had 1080, 4k, & 2k laptops in my life. 1080 text is blurry. 4k is obviously overkill wasting battery on pixels you can’t see. 2k has crisp text without so much wasted density & you have to get unreasonably close to the panel to tell the difference.