Good things and bad, like most things out there.
Good--Pop!_OS comes preinstalled, and it has dual graphics--Intel and NVidia (Mine is a RTX 4070). I'm running a Dell 38" monitor off the built-in DisplayPort in addition to the 17" laptop screen. Storage is 100% SSD, and it's faster than anything I've had previously. Power-off to working is less than 18 secs. Quiet as a mouse, too. Has bluetooth, multiple USB ports, backlit keyboard. Lots of fun stuff.
However, since I had been running Fedora for a couple decades, I thought I'd just install Fedora on it.
Wrong.
Hardware drivers are specialized enough that other distros may or may not work. I'd stick with Pop!_OS as it comes pre-installed, and has all the required drivers set up properly.
Good news--you CAN install another DE. I'm running KDE rather than the default Gnome/COSMIC. Other than package management, I've got it set up like my old Fedora installs, so I'm happy.
Thank you ShadowAce (and Bob434) for your reply.
Sorry for my late response, but I had to go out of town for a funeral, and just got back to FR.
I'm a retired Linux SysAdmin (for a few years now) and haven't done much with Linux since I retired, but I've always wanted to order a laptop from System76 - even when I was active in the industry - because I don't like spending hours messing with hardware drivers to get basic things to "just work" like they do on my MacBook.
I'm going to go ahead and pull the trigger on a System76 laptop and keep it as my secondary (travel) laptop.