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Gaming laptop with good Linux support?
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In casual conversation, GPU and graphics card are interchangeable.
When being technical, the GPU is the chip itself, the only part that is made by Nvidia or AMD or Intel, while the graphics card is the entire circuit board/chip/components/heat sink/fan assembly. It's a bit like the CPU in the motherboard, they're just not sold separately.
That's in desktop computers. Laptops usually don't have a "graphics card." Laptops that have a dedicated GPU it's usually permanently attached to the motherboard. The Framework 16 mentioned above is a modular laptop, and will have removable GPU modules.