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[Solved] Sorry if this not related to this community because I don't know where to ask, but should I buy this laptop? and does it play nice with Linux. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Price: 370$
Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)

CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
Ram: 16GB
Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't say anything about auto-updating. Just can't be bleeding edge and use proprietary drivers, that's all. Other (AMD) use the open source drivers, so they don't have that issue. And that's great. But if you use the NVIDIA propietary drivers, you can't race ahead of them.

That doesn't make the drivers bad; they work perfectly fine; and have far far far better performance than AMD. There's just the trade-off that you can't be bleeding edge when using them.

You take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have...the facts of life.

You're argument that drivers are bad because you can't fuck around with your system without them breaking is disingenuous. If you buy a brand new Wacom tablet, and it turns out that it's too new and the Kernel doesn't support it yet, or no one has written a patch to get it working, you don't claim that Wacom is a shit company. It's just a fact of life that you have to wait for either the kernel to update or for someone to get a patch working.

But when it comes to NVIDIA...holy shit... WORST, period, COMPANY, period, EVER!!!! And that's just hypocritical.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Bleeding edge in Debian? I was not even using the "testing" release of Debian.

If your point is that it's fine for a company to get their stuff out there in a timely fashion, that company just sucks balls in my opinion.

Just FYI I am perfectly fine with you having your workarounds and (apparently different) opinion.

I expected some basic civility and more constructive tone of words. But if you start blaming me as a user for something basically ALL other vendors are coping with just fine, thats where the discussion stops with me.

I am definitely not against linux (daily user myself). And honestly, people like you don't make Linux more attractive of an option.

Have a good one.