My Next Daily Driver?

How I derived to the System76 Lemur Pro

For almost 2 years, I have happily switched from 10+ years of using various Macbooks as my daily driver to a 6th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon (X1C6) running Ubuntu mostly because Jony Ive screwed me with the butterfly keyboard. A few things that I love about the X1C6 to this day that makes it still one of the best contenders as my daily driver are:

• Camera Cover (ThinkShutter)
• Thunderbolt but I rarely make use of it
• 2x available USB-C ports (1x for power and 1x for data/display)
• The 3 mouse buttons
• Carbon Fiber material making the ruggedness and weight of the device superior

However, over time, I have grown out of some of its hardware:

• CPU (8th Gen i7)
• RAM (max 16GB)
• NVMe (500GB)
• The super crappy speakers that was supposedly fixed on the 7th gen model

So I started hunting for an upgrade.

Before I go into which machines I evaluated, I will share some of the applications that I use and mostly keep open on a daily basis under the Gnome Desktop Environment to provide some context:

• Telegram Messenger (Official Messenger used for Work)
• All-in-One Messenger (running Whatsapp, FB Messenger, Mattermost, TweetDeck, Hangouts, WeChat, and Skype)
• Occasional use of Slack and Riot
• Brave Browser (Web Browsing — for everything else that’s not listed here)
• Spotify (Music)
• Tilix and Gnome Terminal some times (Terminal)
• Geary (E-Mail)
• MineTime (Calendar)
• Online Meeting in-browser and desktop apps (ie. Google Meet, Jitsi, etc)
• VIM, VSCode, and git (Server Configuration and Coding)
• Various Database utilities for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• WPS Office (the office suite that I…