I recently bought the new System 76 Lemur mostly because I think the S76 folks are good stuff, they’re based in Denver, and because getting reasonable battery life on a Linux laptop has been a 10+ year dream of mine. So far, my experience has been great other than the NVMe drive being in the wrong slot which, you know, first iteration of new hardware that only requires me to unscrew a bunch of screws to fix. In any case, I’ve been living in Linux a bunch more these days since sexy new hardware despite having a case that attracts fingerprints like no other chassis I’ve ever seen. Battery life is stellar; I’ve been running this on battery for almost three hours and done things like installing updates, fired up TorGuard VPN a couple of times for completely above the board and legally legitimate reasons obviously, and bench marked my hard drive performance (to determine that my hyper fast drive was only doing data transfer at super fast speeds thus cursing me to open the goddamned case to reslot something which I think is a logical extension of the IT curse of needing to open every piece of hardware for some reason or another and therefore prolonging the existence of ice cube trays to keep all of those goddamned screws together and in the correct order) and still have 10 hours of battery remaining. I really like that which is heightened by the fact that the power adapter is only a couple feet long and keeps me from ever wanting to use this machine on AC power. Anyway, it’s a good piece of hardware that works extremely well with Linux and was only marginally soiled by having the machine take over a month to ship and the hard drive installed in the wrong slot. I can mostly live with that given my current state of venting is refreshing, purgative, and that I basically disassemble improperly assembled laptops for a living anyway.

In any case, the new machine is a ton of fun to use and I’m actually just using Pop OS instead of immediately scraping the drive and installing an Arch derivative. So far I’ve been pleased with this distribution and happy just having everything work out of the box. Is this a review? I have no idea if I’ve done enough here to earn that that designation but I am enjoying working on this machine. I hop boxes like crazy but I think I’m going to use this one for a while if only because I can run it on battery forever which is a fairly new experience.