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I have the same laptop with the 4K IPS display and the AMD 5850U, and I am pretty happy with it. On Ubuntu I had to install the Wi-Fi driver manually [0], tweak the grub config to make the screen brightness control work [1], and install gnome-screensaver to make suspend/resume work properly. Maybe things would work better out of the box on Pop!_OS? Otherwise, it's pretty good. It does not heat up much compared to the previous Intel laptop I had, and it is plenty fast. I was not able to make Howdy [2] work properly, and the fingerprint reader was not reliable compared to my MacBook, however.

[0]: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89

[1]: Add this to the grub file : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.backlight=0"

[2]: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy



The wifi issue was pretty much what made me give up on the Thinkpad and go back to the Macbook, where I can set up my work environment pretty quickly and not have to deal with other random issues…




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