[cogman10]

FWIW, I have a 5 year old dell XPS whose battery I could both find an replace easily.

That is one of the advantages of the bigger name brands, replacement parts are generally a lot easier to find.

[fullstop]

I was in it to support the company and their goals, but the experience was a little souring.

[happymellon]

Aren't System76 laptops just rebranded Cleo, which is why there is no design consistency?

They don't manufacture batteries and never have, I've always had mixed feelings when it comes to "supporting their goals".

I appreciate their work to get Linux working on those models, but they can't provide long term hardware support.

[fullstop]

They are, but a selling point at the time was that you could buy replacement parts from System76.

[Wingman4l7]

Yeah, but is it OEM? Even big names like Dell don't support their parts for that long, and you have to resort to getting sketchy third-party parts from China, or rolling the dice on a used OEM part.

[cogman10]

Yes. I bought it directly from dell.com

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-97-wh-6-cell-lithium-io...