The Ubuntu button is a nice touch

Most times the machine is quiet, but fan noise does occur (not obnoxious though, fine in quiet places)

While Ubuntu is decent , I find myself missing Linux Mint so at some point I'll prob dual boot or flat out replace

The bottom half of the laptop is quite sturdy and solid, however it's pretty easy to bend the top half.

The power button is on the left side of the laptop instead of facing up like the keyboard, which is new to me and just feels right somehow

The adapter is light, easy to plug in, and stays out of the way due to its 90° bend near the laptop's port

Bluetooth is great

Sound quality is good but not very loud (although it seems that's pretty usual)

All in all, I think I'll be happy with this machine :)
I'll update more as I continue working with it and if anyone has specific questions, just let me know. ✌

Update:
So I've been lightly using the machine for a little while. The touchpad is decently responsive but I do have a bit of learning curve with the touchpad buttons because it's one flat piece but still two sided (like a seesaw). Luckily I was able to just go to the settings on the Ubuntu OS so that taps register as clicks.

The keys are backlit (white and blue) clear to read and feel nice, not much change there

I was concerned that I might not like the thick bezel but it hasn't bothered me

It's so thin and light! I legit have to check my backpack to ensure that I haven't forgotten it

The battery life is definitely not chromebook level but I think you could get through a half a day, maybe a full day with light use

The camera isn't great, but then again I don't think they usually are

It's NOT a fingerprint magnet, so tends to look pretty good

There's some custom themes here and there from system76 which look nice

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@jamescodesthing
Will do

@demiko
Ah, that sucks. Can see if they possibly ship to you by checking out system76.com/shipping

@demiko
For the specs I got and considering shipping, the total was between $1200 and $1300.
It hurt, but my only other laptop is old and dying, so there was no way around getting a new one.
They also have monthly payment plans if you don't want to do a lump sum, I think it was $85/month

@demiko
I know right! I'm excited *^^*

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system76.com/galago

The customizations I got:
7th gen i5 - 3.1GHz
16GB DDR4 - 2400MHz
250 PCIe SSD - Read: 3200 mb/s and Write: 1500 mb/s

or 3
(Evaluate the top, then the bottom, then add)

@calmyourtities
Gotcha, thanks

In one of the surveys, I can't tell if they are talking about Visual Studio as in the huge IDE, or Visual Studio Code, as in the smaller text editor

function convert (wine) {
return code;
}

"Miss a semicolon"

There's plenty of opportunities to teach kids to code, at least where I am (Chicago). I'm actually trying to get out of doing that because I went down this career path to be a dev and got pigeonholed from everyone asking me to teach instead.

@RiderExMachina
Haha, I know right. I actually just began using my first apple product ever (an iPhone because I dropped my old phone one too many times), and it actually made me dislike the company more. It's so limiting it hurts.

Wow this is so accurate to me @.@

@bittersweet
Kewl beans, thanks

@qbasic16, interesting. I'll give it a shot, thanks.

@maltedMilk , that sounds good too. It's a good thing it's summertime, thanks.

@Fydrenak, thanks. I've touched on a few of those in the past, but it looks like I need to visit them again. Luckily I live in a city with great meetups so I'll probably sign up for the next Project Euler one.

.push("Hooray");

I was in the same spot a few years ago. I decided to go with Linux Mint. It's pretty easy to use and the interface is more closely related to that of Windows. Then, after a while, I just went with Mint solo.

Tycho

soooo much travel