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afaik, if u use the proprietary nvidia drivers and the https://asus-linux.org kernel, u should be good to go. and also, according to this, fedora is the recommended distro of choice by the asus-linux team, but u should find guides for other distros that also support the asus-linux kernel on that website
This is really cool! I had no idea that asus had Linux support. I just skimmed their site, are all their current models supported?
I’ll have to consider them next time I get a computer.
currently I already have a Lenovo IdeaPad 1 with Ryzen 3 7320u that's why I can get away with just running Arch and Wayland without any problems, and I can't use Ubuntu or Debian even Fedora based distro really well because it's too hard for me, so no buy I guess?
Dude if you are able to use arch without difficulties, you can use ubuntu or fedora as well without any issues. And arch should have good support for asus-kernel and nvidia drivers through pre compiled binaries so even if you stick with arch, it won't be an issue
I don't see why it won't play nice with linux but as to if you should buy this laptop... it doesn't look in a good shape. I am a bit biased as I had poor experience with laptops with gpus. Old laptops can have bent heatsinks so you can't control the temps no matter what. If yiu are hell bent on buying it then I'd recommend to stress test both gpu and cpu and look for heavy thermal throttling
Hmm, that's a good point I guess I keep using my old Thinkpad until something else shows up, thanks
That's a good deal for this laptop and while Nvidia sucks on Linux (you'll have some support issues), that graphics card isn't the worst offender.
Tldr yes buy and install Linux. You'll have to tinker for the graphics card though.
Nvidia and Linux don't play well. Also if you are able to add a little bit more I bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14" with a AMD Ryzen processor and without Windows but instead there was FreeDOS preinstalled for $440.
I just installed linux on it and everything worked perfectly for 3 years now, I'm very happy with it. It's not the most powerful, so I can't edit videos on it, but I can play Minecraft, I can program, use the browser with all Microsoft 350 stuff and so on without any problems.
