Comments on: Review: System76 Pangolin Performance laptop

By: mercurybreza

mercurybreza — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:18:08 +0000

I purchased a System76 Starling netbook and the power button shroud fell off the first day the screen failed within a month. The unit itself was poorly designed, cheaply made and will break easily(ie is not ruggeed like a netbook should be). Don’t waste your money on an overpriced product like I did.
Mercury

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By: jellmoo

jellmoo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:39:52 +0000

@weric Not sure what I’m missing, but both laptops there are weaker than the Pangolin, and the second is 140$ more expensive. The Pangolin is a MUCH better deal than either of the laptops there.

By: Zandra

Zandra — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:25 +0000

whatever the debates maybe about this it seems like a good choice for a beginner and that’s exactly what I’m looking for. I think I’ll worry about what other distro’s it can and can’t use for after I get my feet wet.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:35:09 +0000

Good grief indeed!

Its not like Ubuntu is THAT special. I have a System 76 Pangolin Performance laptop running openSuSE 11.1 just fine. I didn’t like the Ubuntu way of doing things, so loaded my distro of choice and haven’t had any problems. I can’t attest to the fingerprint reader, as I don’t use it. Rest assured, unless you’re using some ancient distribution or a highly specialized one, if it runs Ubuntu it will run the others.

(Yes I know I have committed the most heinous sacrilege by wiping Ubuntu. May FOSS have mercy on my soul.)

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:13 +0000

Good grief indeed, *Phil*

As the author clearly mentions in the article, not all Linux PCs support much more than the distro they come with; since it’s implied this particular product is better than the rest, I merely suggested it would have been nice to see how the hardware fares with distros other than the one it comes with. You know, so the consumer isn’t necessarily stuck with the one OS?

Other distros are not guaranteed to work properly on this hardware, and it’s true that any issues may lie more with the software than the hardware, but that’s not the point; if I’m going to spend hundreds of dollars on a computer, it’d be nice to know *before* hand how it handles other OSs. I’m not expecting any and all distros to be supported; I simply would like to know which of the major ones are. Nothing comprehensive, either: just whether networking, graphics, audio, etc. work–all the major things.

Can you not handle this, honey? Darling, you’re just an overgrown orangutan.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:40:33 +0000

Good grief people…..

I could have sworn Ubuntu was a Linux distro. If it runs Ubuntu then it will run other Linux distros. How it runs those is more up to the distro than the laptop. If you want to see distro vs distro performance then Phoronix often has Ubuntu vs Fedora comparisons as a start.

You can’t expect a PC maker to try and support every distro thats out there. Be happy they support one since it usually means you can install your distro of choice without a problem.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:29:47 +0000

For a PC that more than barely supports Linux, it would have been nice to see how it handles other distros. I use Ubuntu, but it’s not the only one out there.

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Wed, 27 May 2009 22:39:56 +0000

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By: weric

weric — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:40:48 +0000

LinPC.us, sells similar notebooks with PCLinuxOS preinstalled for less.

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