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Considerations For Buying a New Laptop (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hey all. I've recently swapped to Linux and I've been really enjoying it so far. I'm still pretty new to basically every aspect of it, though, so I'm not super sure what things I should be wary of with regard to hardware, in particular with Mint.

I was looking at buying a newer laptop to keep up with my main game, but it occurred to me that newer hardware may come with either a host of issues or be less supported than older hardware.

Any advice for laptops in this regard?

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know if this is a Mint limitation or my lack of experience with Linux, but I couldn't get Mint to switch between the integrated graphics and dedicated GPU without manually selecting what I want and restarting. However, I switched to PopOS and everything works fine. This is on an older MSI laptop.

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