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what's a good distro for a razer blade 15?
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I have a Razer Blade Stealth 13 QHD+ touchscreen (RZ09-02393E32) since 2017. Until recently it was mostly Windows and Ubuntu side by side. I realized few months ago I never ever boot on Windows so I removed it. I also got tired on Ubuntu pushing for its own package management system which I don't find useful. Consequently back to "just" Debian stable and works great for me. Didn't have to tinker with anything, just works.
Is it easy to get NVIDA drivers, Vulkan, Cuda etc in Debian? I somehow thought that was kind finicky, not sure why ...
It is finicky on any distribution because NVIDIA drivers aren't perfect on Linux nor on Windows.
That being said I'm gaming, in VR and otherwise (using native games, Proton ones, Steam VR, etc), or running local AI models (thus via CUDA) on a daily basis on Debian and have no problems. You can check https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but it's basically just installing the driver like any other package. I don't have more or less problem than with e.g. Ubuntu. It basically works.