Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
sudo in Windows.Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
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:
I think the answer is yes. Last time I did a survey of options a lot of them seemed highly unreliable. Framework was one exception but... unfortunately I think you kinda just have to like the framework idea. The massive premium you pay there just doesn't make financial sense unless you actively (ab)use your hardware such that it might really fail within the useful lifetime of the processor. (Ie I can buy two laptops for the price of one framework, so...why not just do that if the first fails?)
Framework:
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.
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?
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 if any help either. Won't be ordering from them again.)
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).
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
Theyβre all shitty clevo laptops
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.
Starlabs design their own.
They're also insanely expensive
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
Also Framework.
I think OP means "just work" as in the OS is preinstalled. Framework do support Linux but they don't preinstall a distro for you.
Having said that, I've got a Framework 16 and it's very nice.
When I checked out during purchasing my 16 I seem to remember the options being "no OS (bring your own), Fedora, Ubuntu, and Windows." I chose no OS because I was planning on installing FedoraKDE with FDE which wasn't an option, but, I assumed that by choosing Fedora as my option it would come preinstalled, or does it come with an install USB to do it yourself?
Bought one very recently, the options are
Years ago it was literally impossible to get a laptop without OS. It's a good enough option compared to what we had to suffer before.
Came here to say this. I really like mine.
Came to evangelize about our lord and savior used thinkpads
What color are your knee socks?
I still remember the good old IBM Thinkpads, most of them were indestructible tanks. But with Lenovo, those times are long over. My last machine was a TP L390 Yoga. It overheated frequently, the cooling system was inadequate for the 4.6GHz Intel CPU, one day the logo sticker came off because the glue turned into sticky liquid, the passive Micro-Ethernet dongle cost 50β¬ and the cable turned into glue after a few months...god, what a shit machine this was.
I was able to work with it for a while by limiting and undervolting the CPU, but one day a Windows update came out that disabled the functionality and it worked like crap on Linux for a long time due to bad drivers.
I switched to GPD now. Never going back, although I miss the Trackpoint a little bit.
T and P series is aparently good, normal L is decent, but others are terrible (yoga, x, ideapad, etc.). But I haven't used TP-s myself. I did use an Ideapad and it's terrible (no upgradability, falling apart metal chassis (how the hell does metal break), no key-travel (feels like hitting a rock while typing) and it has a shitload of mediatek hardware which is a pain on linux (but I haven't tested it as it's my dad's).
I had a thinkpad for YEARS running various flavours of Debian / Ubuntu. It never had an issue with drivers and even the fingerprint sensor worked out of the box.
The battery was shot to hell, the hinge was gone, it was time to upgrade. So I bought an ideapad. Thereβs something funky with the audio quality on Linux and the fingerprint scanner is now a face scanner camera. Howdy is not easy to configure and Iβm pretty sure I can trick it with a photo.
Thatβs a long way of me saying I have buyers remorse and not all Lenovos are made equal :(
I'm here to evangelize coreboot and Talos and Framework for those with more money than you and I
I have a framework, not that happy with it. It sometimes fails to find my encrypted partition (many times reinstalled different systems over the years), it heated up to 100Β°C so fast that it throttled down to 400 MHz all the time. The overheating is better since they sent me a new motherboard, but it still goes to 95 easily and heats up when doing the most basic stuff. I've also had some sound issues lately on Debian stable and testing, but not sure about that.
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
I think what people mean when they say this is that they are looking for the same price point as the equivalent Windows device... I don't know all these companies but every time I looked for a Linux PC/laptop it was 25-30% more expensive than the equivalent Windows thing.
Computers are fine yes, but I'm still waiting for a Linux phone with not-shit specs LMAO
More importantly good software, Mobile Linux still sucks
Every 6 months I check to see if theyβve figured out VOLTE on PostmarketOS, or Sailfish (my dream OS tbh) on community ports. And then I cry and angrily tell people how Microsoft destroyed Meego until Iβm told to hush
all of them are a joke in canada
edit: in case this rubs someone the wrong way its a joke to my wallet/my wallet is the joke
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.
As much as I like my Tuxedo, I probably would not have bought it if I had known that the ethernet card and some laptop essentials dont work without their drivers, which have not been upstreamed. Due to this, I can't use my distro of choice (Bluefin) OR run with secure boot and LUKS with tpm unlock even on regular Fedora
What Ethernet chip do they use?
I've got a Framework 16 and all components work on both Fedora and Debian without installing custom drivers, so I'm surprised it's still an issue for some laptops.
Framework as wellβeverything just works.
I recently discovered framework-tool, which is a mindblowing level of integration with Linux.
Thank you! This is awesome:
Get and set fingerprint LED brightness (--fp-brightness, --fp-led-level)