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Gaming laptop with good Linux support? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A similar question was raised some day's ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I'm searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game's and also native Linux games. As OS, I like to use Manjaro Gnome.

Should I better buy all of AMD (if yes, which CPI, GPU) or Intel/Nvidia? Or Intel CPU and AMD GPU? Which combination is the right one with best performance for a casual gamer? I prefer FPS games, if that's important...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kind of surprising they’re using nvidia over amd

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I asked about this to a system76 employee and what he told me was that nvidia with CUDA is still much better for several professional use cases and because of that, they still prefer using nvidia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It does seem they lean pretty hard into the Intel/Nvidia combo, hopefully that will change in the future. I do appreciate the option of prepackaged Nvidia drivers for Pop though. Makes running my old laptop so easy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

PopOS has an Nvidia-specific version.