Quoting: JaredWhy not get a similarly priced laptop with Linux preinstalled such as the one available from system76, Serval 15" . If we were to add a 1TB NVME drive, 16 GB of RAM and a an RTX 2070 can cost around $1782. A similar, if not slightly more expensive, price point to the Asus Strix G15 but one that is known to support Linux.

Or you could just wait for them to release their 4th generation Ryzen laptops.

Quoting: DMG

Quoting: JaredWhy not get a similarly priced laptop with Linux preinstalled such as the one available from system76, Serval 15" . If we were to add a 1TB NVME drive, 16 GB of RAM and a an RTX 2070 can cost around $1782. A similar, if not slightly more expensive, price point to the Asus Strix G15 but one that is known to support Linux.

Or you could just wait for them to release their 4th generation Ryzen laptops.

I would take it, without thinking, if they would sell it in my country. But they don't sell it Europe and do not have service centre anywhere close. So, that's stooping me from even watching in their direction. I do not want to spend time with sending laptop to United States and waiting it to come back (which could take months), if something will not work.

Quoting: Jared

Quoting: DMG

Quoting: JaredWhy not get a similarly priced laptop with Linux preinstalled such as the one available from system76, Serval 15" . If we were to add a 1TB NVME drive, 16 GB of RAM and a an RTX 2070 can cost around $1782. A similar, if not slightly more expensive, price point to the Asus Strix G15 but one that is known to support Linux.

Or you could just wait for them to release their 4th generation Ryzen laptops.

I would take it, without thinking, if they would sell it in my country. But they don't sell it Europe and do not have service centre anywhere close. So, that's stooping me from even watching in their direction. I do not want to spend time with sending laptop to United States and waiting it to come back (which could take months), if something will not work.

You can also get a [Tuxedo computer](https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/Gaming-Notebooks.tuxedo) for slightly cheaper than what you can get from system76 with the added bonus of them shipping to Europe.

Quoting: DMGHello!

I lately more and more thinking about buying new laptop for gaming. Right now I have Dell Inspiron 7559 with GeForce GTX 960M, but feel, that new games requires much more. Especially, because most of them are poorly optimized. I know, that desktop computer is better for gaming, but I like to have it where ever I go. So, guys, what you would suggest to buy? I'm thinking about ASUS ROG Strix G15 with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, but it sells only with windows. Should I be worried, that it will not work with Ubuntu? Or, maybe, you have better suggestions?

Quoting: GrazenI think pretty well every laptop will work in Linux without a problem. I have a Gigabyte that I’ve been using for a few years without a problem - it comes with a 1060. I also have a S76. If you’re going with an Nvidia GPU just be aware that Nvidia Prime and Optimus are fidgety in pretty well every distro I’ve tried except for PoPos.

Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: GrazenI think pretty well every laptop will work in Linux without a problem. I have a Gigabyte that I’ve been using for a few years without a problem - it comes with a 1060. I also have a S76. If you’re going with an Nvidia GPU just be aware that Nvidia Prime and Optimus are fidgety in pretty well every distro I’ve tried except for PoPos.

My MSI GE63VR 7RF (with Nvidia 1070 hybrid GPU) for example, is very picky about installing Linux. So far, I have only managed to get Linux Mint to work on it without too much hassle (only a black screen at the first reboot, but not hard to fix - even I could do it :grin: ).
However, no luck with other distros (I tried about 8 different distros), some would not even start the Live environment.

Quoting: garpuMy partner just got an ASUS laptop, and it's pretty sweet. I have no idea how it runs Linux, though. :(

Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: garpuMy partner just got an ASUS laptop, and it's pretty sweet. I have no idea how it runs Linux, though. :(

If my Asus Zephyrus G14 is anything to go by, Linux is very likely to run into firmware issues. It runs, quite well in fact, but in order for power management to work properly and not lock the CPU to 400 MHz (yes, four hundred), I had to boot into Windows and change some options in some Asus configuration software for the device and mess around with bios settings as well.

Would not recommend as a Linux box.