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…

    • sudo_su@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Please don’t laugh, this probably doesn’t really fall into that category, but I wanted to keep it simple: Ark - Survival Evolved, Counter Strike but also games like Space Engineers. Ark causes relatively few problems. Space Engineers, on the other hand, does. Unlike Ark, it currently runs with very few FPS and often crashes or doesn’t start at all. In general, I play more when I have time in the evening for 1 or 2 hours, comfortably on the sofa. So the laptop is more suitable.

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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        1 year ago

        You probably don’t play garbage games then, like Fortnite, PUBG, Valorant, Destiny 2 etc. These, while garbage, are unfortunately very popular, which is why you keep hearing about why popular FPS games may not work in Linux.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          Fortnite

          One of these is not like the others

          But it’s crazy that Epic buys EAC then makes it Linux compatible only for them to not use it

  • throwawayish@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    As others have already (somewhat) alluded to; it’s best to buy a laptop from a company that offers devices on which Linux users are first-class citizens. Therefore, any device that specifically fits your needs (hardware-wise) from either NovaCustom, Star Labs, System76, Tuxedo etc should fit the bill. Furthermore, it’s worth noting that Nvidia GPUs have a known bad track record on Linux. The possibility exists that you won’t even notice it on any of the devices sold by any of the aforementioned vendors. However, I’d argue it’s still mindful to be cautious.

    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…

    AMD has been doing very good for some time and the fact that the Steam Deck is powered by AMD is very telling of what the current status quo is. However, I don’t think it’s a hard requirement. Sure, going full-AMD has it’s merits, but you should be fine regardless.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 year ago

    I had no problems with Tuxedo but I would recommend a work laptop and a gaming desktop

    Laptops age incredibly fast due to heat

    AMD has the better graphics cards, CPU wise Intel has caught up so look for the cheaper equivalent

    List the games you want and we can tell you compatibility, if you just want FPS games then I get my fix from Plutonium (older COD games)

  • EponymousBosh@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    As someone who uses a fairly cheap gaming laptop with an NVIDIA GPU: I would advise against NVIDIA. I’ve successfully gotten mine to work, but it’s been a hassle. If you can avoid it, do so.

      • Sentau@lemmy.one
        3·
        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

      • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip
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        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!

    • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I have one, they are good but you can generally get better quality for less with Dell or Lenovo. Where System 76 shines is its customer support: they are responsive, helpful and knowledgeable. This, plus the fact that popOS is a damn fine Linux distro expressly tuned to their machines, largely makes up for the fact that it might be a bit more expensive than the alternatives. Regarding gaming, I can’t really say… I’ve played a few steam games on it but they’re not the type that require much firepower. Still, no problem there.

      • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        Good to know. Which model do you have? I’ve been eyeing up something along the lines of the Pangolin when I next upgrade. I’ve been a fan of Pop for some time, and I’m currently running it on my three main computers. It’s great on my Dev One and I’ve also got it on an older Alienware laptop. Their customer support is pretty good, I contacted them about information on a keyboard a while back and it seemed they knew what they were doing.