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Gaming laptop with good Linux support?
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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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.
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."
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.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu?h=v6.5
To quote you: "I can’t tell you anything about gaming."
"I can’t tell you anything about gaming."
Funny how you tell stories about completely different issues the post is about just to promote NVidia...
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."