Linux

48750 readers

1501 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

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

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

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The unfortunate side of AMD in laptops is that we are on a major point of deprecation and change. [...] it doesn’t have a massive impact for gamers [...] The average gamer doesn’t really interact much with this stuff.

Quite a long bit of anti-AMD FUD and NVidia promo for what is completely unrelated to OP's question, as you outright say with two sentences. OP asked about gaming notebooks and not CUDA.

you need to run Fedora.

OP said to wish to use Manjaro Gnome. Basically you're like "I'm throwing a bunch of mud against AMD for a use case you're not interested in and then go ahead and tell you that your choice of OS is wrong."

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

Quite a bit of under the hood and real issues at a deeper level, along with a proven path of least resistance.

I don't care how it makes you, me, or anyone else feel. The hardware support at the kernel level is the most important factor in overall experience. I do not like Nvidia at all. I wanted to buy AMD and tried really hard to make that happen, but it simply isn't competitive in the laptop space. The first decent options will be announced in the next few months as 7k hardware makes it into laptops. The 6k stuff is generations behind Nvidia.

I have two computers running libre boot. One is fully compiled from the bootloader up and running Gentoo. I would only run this if it could handle the workload. I am not a fanboi fool. I will call out shit for what it is. Maybe you can get by with deprecated stuff. Maybe you don't mind if it is not supported in a couple of years. I'm just telling you why the writing is on the wall and what to look for. If that motivates your emotional nonsense response, whatever.

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

The hardware support at the kernel level is the most important factor in overall experience.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu?h=v6.5

it simply isn’t competitive in the laptop space.

To quote you: "I can’t tell you anything about gaming."

I will call out shit for what it is.

"I can’t tell you anything about gaming."

I am not a fanboi fool.

Funny how you tell stories about completely different issues the post is about just to promote NVidia...

Maybe you can get by with deprecated stuff. Maybe you don’t mind if it is not supported in a couple of years.

The only company outright deprecating older GPUs is NVidia who don't support anything before Turing for Wayland. AMD drivers are fully open source and are also being worked on by Valve and Collabora for the Steam Deck. If anything, AMD hardware is more likely to be supported in quite some time because of Steam Deck but you wouldn't know this because you "can’t tell anything about gaming."