I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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I've been stalking (er-, ... I mean "watching") System76 for a while on the Ubuntu forums, Twitter and more.
If I had the funds I would gladly replace my 7+ years old systems with something new from System76 or ZaReason. I like that running Linux on them is a no-brainer, and it supports Linux businesses.
I know openSUSE doesn't get a lot of air time, but I have read about openSUSE working well on System76 machines.
Honestly, I would contact them and find out what they know! Their customer service department is supposed to be really, really friendly and good.