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System76 has laptops with Linux preinstalled, so they may be a good option to check. https://system76.com/laptops-powerful I have not personally owned one yet, but I've heard some good things about them. Other people may have more input though.
Kind of surprising they’re using nvidia over amd
I asked about this to a system76 employee and what he told me was that nvidia with CUDA is still much better for several professional use cases and because of that, they still prefer using nvidia
It does seem they lean pretty hard into the Intel/Nvidia combo, hopefully that will change in the future. I do appreciate the option of prepackaged Nvidia drivers for Pop though. Makes running my old laptop so easy!
PopOS has an Nvidia-specific version.
I have one, they are good but you can generally get better quality for less with Dell or Lenovo. Where System 76 shines is its customer support: they are responsive, helpful and knowledgeable. This, plus the fact that popOS is a damn fine Linux distro expressly tuned to their machines, largely makes up for the fact that it might be a bit more expensive than the alternatives. Regarding gaming, I can't really say... I've played a few steam games on it but they're not the type that require much firepower. Still, no problem there.
Good to know. Which model do you have? I've been eyeing up something along the lines of the Pangolin when I next upgrade. I've been a fan of Pop for some time, and I'm currently running it on my three main computers. It's great on my Dev One and I've also got it on an older Alienware laptop. Their customer support is pretty good, I contacted them about information on a keyboard a while back and it seemed they knew what they were doing.
It's a Ryzen 7 Pangolin, I bought it almost 2 years ago.
Friend of mine bought a Pangolin, anything to watch out for?
I had my cpu fan die after a year, so maybe that. They replaced it really fast though.
Thanks!