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For those who're currently looking for a nice new device: shown are (from Top Left to Right):
Not mentioned but also selling Ready-to-use Linux computer:
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So apparently it's for the Western people then. (Or I could be wrong)
I simply don't know any vendors in Japan, Australia, India etc., but feel free to provide some!
I can't find any, hence my comment
Which would be considered a good gaming laptop?
System76 laptops are built for gaming.
They also created their own Linux distro called Pop! Os, which is designed around gaming, and fairly popular within the community. All their laptops come with Pop! os preinstalled
Lol, no? System76 does have gaming-capable devices and Pop!_OS will absolutely get you there, but neither was designed "around gaming".
To answer the original question: System76, Tuxedo and Slimbook do sell gaming-capable devices. Others might do as well, this isn't a complete list.
They literally advertise it on their website. They definitely have gaming in mind.
Sure, they're not designed solely for gaming. But they're focused on graphical performance which is what makes them suited for gamers.
Pop! Os has a focus on graphical performance, with versions containing preconfigured AMD/nvidia drivers depending on the users build. To claim that gaming hasn't factored into the decision to focus on graphics would just be silly.
Doesn't really feel as though that pedantry has added anything to the conversation if I'm honest, as the question was what would be suitable for gaming, and you yourself also recommend 76?
Tbh I would rather a desktop and build that myself. If I wanted a laptop I would most likely be looking for very low specs and cheap, so second hand. Got a laptop with a 2011 pentium CPU somewhere and it works perfectly fine on Linux, even got a few games on it.
Drox Operative 2 runs at 60FPS, kinda makes me wish we had more 2D games these days as they can run on pretty much anything.
I've got a cheap refurbished ThinkPad L390 Yoga. (β¬180) It's plenty powerful and the touchscreen is awesome with KDE Plasma (but only with Wayland - X11 is not built for touchscreens, it only does mouse emulation).
PSA: My Starbook MK V has great specs but feels cheap and loses charge when closed, so it's always empty when I need it.
(Tried all firmware updates and different distros, without success and their support isn't of any help either. Won't be ordering from them again.)
Theyβre all shitty clevo laptops
Well, the quality of most laptops fell enough in the last decade, that the clevos are decent now. Also, fuck thinkpad part rejection, I'm definitely not buying a (edit: new) TP.
would you mind elaborating on the part rejection? i am not sure what is meant by that
I beg to differ, i have bought clevo w650sj back in the day when it was produced, it works great to this day, just added ssd and ram and it works great with opensuse tumbleweed and windows 11 dualboot, i use windows in dual boot because i need adobe and flashing software for obscure chinese phones and flashing software to revive bricked usb sticks
That's not true! Some of them are Tongfang devices. π₯΄
It's true those companies have to overwhelmingly work with ODMs, doesn't necessarily make the devices shitty though.
Why! (CH)
I have a GPD Win Max 2 2024 and it's such an amazing device. Everything works ootb on Fedora, except the FP reader (but that's already being worked on). Raytracing on a 10" device, what a time to be alive.
It's also very easy to disassemble, clean and repair.
So GPD definitely wins in my book.
It's important to note that if you don't already have a computer, ordering one without an os installed is a problem.
So some people gotta have something, if only to download and install their distro of choice. So, even a bad distro is better than nothing occasionally
Just confirming the point about Lenovo. Bought a brand new Lenovo Legion last fall, and I didn't even bother booting Windows once before I started from a Linux Mint install USB.
After wrapping up the install, everything worked out of the box, including Lenovos hotkey for toggling the keyboard LEDs.
I found out Lenovo has a copilot key (keycode 201). Yesterday I remapped it to running a shell script that toggles some keyboard parameters.
Same for Dell; moreover, KDE actually features the respective indicators, so the laptop feels completely Linux-native