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Easiest Laptop GPU (NixOS or arch) for NixOS or Arch - 2023 (lemmy.ml)

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These days I was wondering what laptop GPU would be the easiest to maintain / simplest to configure from a laptop POV?

Considering NixOS (I see Nix as gentoo++) or arch.

Onboard Intel/amd? “Discrete” Intel/amd/nvidia?

Would prefer open source but am not Uber passionate (results > means).

Fictional use case is mid tier game development - ray tracing is nice but stability and minimal effort to keep stable while pushing decent amounts shader/polygons is more important vs peak perf/px. No bitbro / artificial guess.

Experiences & recommendos?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Laptop and GPU don't really belong in the same sentence. There are good ones that are integrated or not. But if you are asking about GPUs it's time to look into a desktop. A laptop will never have a good GPU.

Edit: Saw that you are talking about game development. Yes, it's desktop time. You will need it.

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

Idk if I agree with that. The one that's in my laptop works pretty well. It's an RTX 3080 Mobile. It's fairly beefy, and I'm able to run AAA games at max graphics settings at 60+ fps. Sure there are crappy laptops with weak GPUs, but I mean gaming laptops exist and work great in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well…maybe. I will say what Apple has done is pretty impressive. A desktop has the power supply to drive energy intensive workloads, however I would rather not do that for … game tinkering, at best. Mobility is a virtue.