Interesting I had the opposite reaction. Had an oryx pro at home for three years. It's a beast, plays games. Battery life wasn't great but I use it plugged in most of the the time. Has the Nvidia graphics which use a lot of power.
Liked it so much I got the pangolin all Amd laptop for work. Its been my daily driver for 4 months now and I really like it. Much better battery life than the oryx pro (integrated graphics). It's fast enough And has enough cores I did some long genomic software runs on it. It's much quieter under load the the oryx. This machine is great but they don't seem to sell it anymore. I'm pretty happy with the Amd notebook cpu and if I have to get another I probably would be looking for that.
Oh man. So many. I don't want it to just be bagging on System76 and PopOS! though. I really bought in because I believed in the partnership, but I really believe that PopOS! has kinda 'lost track' of what they were trying to do.
System76 issues:
Battery life is basically a joke. I can't use the machine without it being plugged in.
For the price, the trackpad/ keypad/ keyboard experience is not great. I've had dells with better trackpads. At the price point I paid ($2200 in 2020), they are not a premium experience.
There have been no firmware updates to address issues like bluetooth or battery life.
Considering its built hand in glove with PopOS, depending on what update you are on, various things just break every-time, like audio or the popshop, or bluetooth.
That all being said, I'm an abusive owner, and its been a workhorse. I just can't recommend it based on its price-point. Everything just needs to be 'better', but mostly the hardware/firmware/OS relationship.
I still want an 'it just works' linux machine. The System76/PopOS! combo isn't there yet.
the trackpad sucks, it seldom works. the material feels cheap. the builtin speakers are a joke. the machine is very fast but the fan goes off like an airplane during compute-intensive tasks. the custom OS is annoying (but that's on me, i should have picked Ubuntu). the OS is annoying because you solve most of your issues with solutions, blogs, etc. written for Ubuntu. or Debian.
I'm on a System76.
I gave it a shot.
No.