I own a System 76 laptop (the Oryx) and ultimately bought a MacBook Air m1 to replace it. I'm not sure how many people know this, but S76 doesn't make their own hardware and instead uses repackaged Clevo laptops. These machines are cheap, ugly, and heavy. Nothing about them feels particularly high quality. They charge a premium price so I'd expected more and was disappointed. Knowing what I know now, I would have gotten a Framework laptop for a first class linux experience.

All that said, PopOS is my distro of choice. They really got a lot right there IMO. If they can get it together on the hardware front, might be worth another look in the future.