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 Lenovo thinkpads. I still haven't heard a positive review about System 76. 
 I just upgraded my daily driver laptop of 7 years to a newer generation ThinkPad and I'm very excited for it to get here. 
 I kinda like the Samsung galaxy book. Super small, lightweight and portal. I mainly use a desktop however. 
 One of these days I'll build a desktop again, but I've gotten so used to the mobility of a laptop. I haven't had one for years. 
 here's one:

was the first linux distro i was able to find that supported my AMD Radeon video card

Zorin is another distro that also is nice for this, their UI enhancements are better than PopOS though

idk about the hardware though... i actually paid for zorin pro because the broad support for new AMD hardware in linux is so bad i could scream 
 yes, to be clear, PopOS is very nice for steam gaming on linux 
 I used pop for my daily driver for about a year before switching back to Debian. 

And that's good to know about their laptops. 
 yeah, i would be vaguely interested in getting a system76 laptop that has amd chips in it because they are actually making the effort to support that

the way that people disregard AMD's awesome tech out there really disturbs me, because it really is awesome, simple, and cheap, and the old days of hot RED is not a thing, nor is the bad power consumption

Zen architecture current generation and the previous have been a massive advance in the tech because they produce power efficient results without the complexity, and the CPUs themselves, this is why i have been a Ryzen user for about 8 years, have more cache memory, and as a programmer, i appreciate the benefit with that... small, highly expensive computations like cryptography benefit from this kind of bigger fast memory cache