I want to buy a laptop for a few purposes, not my main laptop:

  • Use it to run [email protected] stuff and Stable Diffusion.

  • Use it for games downloaded from repack sites. So for these two, it would need a decent GPU.

  • I would like to pull out the WiFi card. I have offline computers and online computers. No need for this to use the internet.

  • I would probably dual-boot Windows and Linux, or else have it boot Windows and use a live USB when I want Linux

Thank you all.

Money is no object.

  • ghoti
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    91 month ago

    AMD GPUs are much less of a hassle on Linux, though - looks like Nvidia are moving towards open sourcing their drivers soon which may make this less of an issue for op

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      I’ve had zero issues with nvidia on Linux lately. It works flawlessly on newer drivers, even on wayland.

      • ghoti
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        41 month ago

        Sweet, good to know! Always glad to see FOSS working better

      • @BassTurd
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        1 month ago

        Same. Probably about a month ago there was an Nvidia driver and I think Wayland update that took it from unusable on Wayland to quite stable.