Look, we know System76 laptops are based as fuck. I mean, Coreboot, Open source firmware, PopOS, and a fucking open source mobo in the works, just so fucking based.

But man, these framework laptops look cool too. Completely modular and easy to work on. Looks like the company has proved it isn’t going to go under anytime soon.

I’m debating what to get once I feel like upgrading from the trusty ol ThinkPad. What would you buy?

  • Daeraxa
    121·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t even realise what the ‘76’ in the name was meant to be until that comment, thats really rather cheesy…

    • kureta
      7·
      1 year ago

      I still don’t understand. what does it mean?

      • Daeraxa
        17·
        1 year ago

        From wikipedia:

        The number 76 in the company name is a reference to 1776, the year the American Revolution took place. Richell explained that the company hoped to spark an “open source revolution”, giving consumers a choice to not use proprietary software.

          • Daeraxa
            216·
            1 year ago

            I find it very weird and it feels very nationalist/right-wing. In other countries the USA does not bring the concept of “freedom” to mind and, whilst it may be fine to Americans, doesn’t really make me want to get involved with them as a potential international customer.

            • Duamerthrax
              111·
              1 year ago

              Right wingers would have stuck with the monarchy.

              • Daeraxa
                5·
                1 year ago

                Not that I think necessarily the left/right wing divide as we currently know it can be applied to history like that but I’m not so sure we can categorise the hyper-religious separatists as not being right wing at all. Either way, history isn’t the point here, the association many have of the kinds of people that tout “1776” everywhere tends to be the wife-beater wearing, massive pickup toting, 2fa enthusiasts obsessed with tramping people’s rights in the name of “muh freedums”.

                • Duamerthrax
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Everyone was religious back then if they wanted to have any success. You were either religious or pretended to be. Why do you think Thomas Paine is the only Founding Father not to have a monument.

                  • Daeraxa
                    3·
                    1 year ago

                    Well yeah… but these were people who thought the church reforms weren’t enough for them and wanted to make the entire country more “godly” by purging all traces of catholicsm and then leaving to cross an entire ocean to set up a new godly society.

              • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                12·
                1 year ago

                They registered the domain in 2003 and started selling in 2005. I don’t think it is fair to apply current right wing rhetoric to a name selected 20 years ago when it was more neutral (as were flags).

                If they start marketing Proud Boy Linux I might reconsider that stance.

                I won’t buy from them because their main software guy said some stupid stuff a while ago when he was mad at gnome and it came across as both inaccurate and needlessly antagonistic.