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…

  • @woelkchen
    6•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.”