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Quoting: medI see that unfortunately it comes with an nvidia GPU. I understand this works for some, but it is a no-go for me. Is there any good quality offering of a pure AMD gaming laptop?

Quoting: setzer22AMD CPU but no option without Nvidia... Makes me sad :(

I've been out of the GPU-loop for about five years now, but are Linux AMD drivers good enough for gaming now? This was always a problem before?

That said, I am very excited about this company.

Yeah, things have changed on the driver front in the last 5 years. Basically, the AMD open source driver is the driver everyone uses for AMD, AMD have been fairly co-operative about making that workable, and it has thus improved a lot in that time. It's developed pretty actively, keeps up with new developments. AMD drivers are currently considered pretty solid.

NVIDIA continue to basically block full effectiveness of open source drivers, so everyone uses their closed drivers. These are, to be fair, mostly decent by most accounts, but they have their glitches, which we can't do anything about because closed, and NVIDIA continues to be unco-operative with Wayland stuff.

Between those two sides of things, and a tendency to feel that AMD have regained momentum lately, Linux gamers have increasingly shifted to AMD graphics cards.

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Quoting: kibblesYay! I love the nanny state! Today it's "slurs", next "pronouns", next "misgendering". I'm so happy the mentally ill with their toddler mentally have invaded gaming! Quick! Someone call me a nazi!

Yer a moron. Just don't turn it on. Problem solved, duh.

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Quoting: lejimsterI was seriously looking at a Lenovo laptop earlier this year. It's nice to see a big brand supporting Linux so much. I would still likely erase the installed OS and put my own distro on.

Yeah. Even if you're putting on your own distro, it's still nice to be fairly sure the hardware won't have major driver issues.

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Oh, yeah, this. I intended to wishlist it back when I saw an article here before. Have now.

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Quoting: GuestIt seems to me that with that system, the censorship in on the side of the user. So, if a user X is shocked by bad words he or she turns on the filter without bothering the others. That sounds like a good compromise to me.

Yeah. Glad Liam put the UI right in the article here, so we can see exactly how it works. It really seems to put the power in the hands of the user in a pretty fine-grained way. So I'm sure, since everyone will look at that and think about how it would work before posting, we won't get a bunch of generalized inapplicable "censorship bad cuz snowflakes" posts.

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SDL 2 really gets around, huh? Seems like it's become a really important project when it comes to making a bunch of stuff work easily on Linux.

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Makes me glad I'm almost entirely a single-player kind of gamer. Not that I've played that much Civ VI so far.

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Well, good for them!
That's a fair range of games . . . they don't look like huge games, but sometimes you want something that isn't some massive commitment.

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So, sort of a less tragic Doctor Horrible kind of thing.

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Quoting: randylI can't help but think we create our own special hell for ourselves by loudly clamoring for Linux support and then driving developers away with low sales and a frustrating development experience.

"driving developers away with low sales" is a kind of weird turn of phrase. It's not like we Linux users create the low sales. Low market share is our biggest problem, for sure. If it was high, developers would, as they do with other platforms, gripe about its problems but work with them anyway.

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