Needed a laptop to run Arch Linux and be my active tool for light gaming, programming, music listening, etc. I needed a slim laptop that remained very cool, while also having good specs. This seems to be the one. I'd like to list the pros and cons so you can get a feel for what I'm thinking with this laptop and how I think of it.Pros:- A little on the heavy side, but very slim. (Slim factor is a huge thing I was looking for and this passes for me!)- Cooling vents seem to be on bottom of the laptop, but laptop has great cooling even while laying in bed with moderate use while the vents are covered on wool blankets! (Wow!)- 3 USB ports (2 usb 3.0; 1 usb 2.0) are useful for extra peripherals.- Backlit keyboard is perfectly bright in the dark- Keyboard is laid out in a very sane and good way.- Glossy IPS high-res display looks great.- Laptop speakers are decently loud- Webcam is actually fairly decent- Screen bezel is not too much, and is small enough to be ignored- Bluetooth module is good enough to connect to bluetooth speaker and play music/sounds with almost zero latency- SSD is very fast and the 256 gb standard capacity isn't that bad.Cons:- Internal microphone is garbage.- I am finding that the edges of the laptop are actually digging into my wrists while typing regularly- I find that both my hands keep accidentally hitting the track pad while typing and accidentally scrolling, clicking, etc.- Battery life is okay at no more than a few hours for me. I find that I am always plugged into an outlet and battery is only necessary when needing to unplug for a few minutes, or to only use the laptop for small periods of time.- No ethernet or optical disk drive. Wifi module is fast enough to compromise for it slightly, but has some fallouts with gaming sometimes. Lack of ODD can be easily resolved with USB disk reader.- While the build quality is superb, I find that it scratches a little easier and attracts little particles such as dust, hair, etc. Need to wipe often.- Ram is non-upgradable due to not being solderedThis laptop is a great machine out of the box and would do well for light gamers, students, workers, etc. I am thoroughly enjoying this and hope this laptop lasts a long time! I have not tested the stock Windows software at all because I do not run Windows.If you plan on keeping Windows on the machine, then the review has ended for you. If you intend to hear about the technical side of installing another OS on it, continue.Now I got this laptop to run only Arch Linux. I do not use Windows 10 that it came with. The Arch Linux installation ran very smoothly, and I only started encountering issues when Xorg was installed. The laptop would randomly crash after 4 mins after startx. I found that enabling AMD debug mode by adding AMD_DEBUG="nodma,nongg" to /etc/environment helped. Also adding these kernel parameters to my kernel boot seemed to really solve crashing issues: "processor.max_cstate=1 intel_idle.max_cstate=0". Even though this is an AMD CPU, that intel_idle.max_cstate kernel param seemed to help substantially.All hardware seems to work great except for the fingerprint scanner. THE FINGERPRINT SCANNER DOES NOT WORK IN LINUX BECAUSE OF A LACK OF DRIVERS FOR THE SPECIFIC MODEL FOUND ON THE SYSTEM (EgisTec Touch Fingerprint Sensor). Running startx with the env variable DRI_PRIME=1 forces X to run on the AMD GPU which is very helpful. I also start all games with that same env variable.After fixing all the crashing and such dealing with Arch Linux, KDE, and AMD drivers, the laptop runs very smoothly and perfectly on Linux. Overall, this laptop is a great purchase and a great Linux machine for a serious Linux user!