just_another_person @ just_another_person @lemmy.world

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You want a semi or rolling release distro. Fedora is semi-rolling, would be the most user-friendly I think. Anything Arch-based but more user-friendly, like CachyOS, would be good as well. Tim leweed is rarely recommended unless you need like bleeding edge, which it doesn't sound like you really want.

That should be a fucking crime

OHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO

Fantastic show. Watch it.

Friend...$700-1000 is NOT a premium. Especially not for what you're actually getting. You need to reevaluate your life 🤣

Sub Hunt, Frogger, White Water

Why did they have that many employees to begin with??? WTF.

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Always check ProtonDB when in doubt. Add your comments as well to let other users know it worked as they may be in a similar situation.

Sleep/hibernation is mostly software config in Linux. The S-statebon every main board will support sleep states 2-4 at a minimum, and you can configure your particular setup to do hibernation without an issue.

https://www.protondb.com/app/990080

Robber Barons are back in style!

Why is anyone questioning why people want to murder the rich and support social programs more and more. You have just sit and think how much people will take before they absolutely slaughter these fucking pieces of human trash.

Get resource usage under utilization and nvidia-smi output and post here.

Also, are you sure it's input lag, or is the entire machine pausing and hiccuping?

The main issue is that a lot of these bigger manufacturers have 3 tiers of hardware they kick out:

1. consumer-grade/junk
2. professional/developer/niche
3. enterprise hardened

If you find a model of something you're looking to buy for sale at big box stores, it's going to be total junk: windows-centric hardware with low reliability, but really cheap to produce. Stay away from those, as their Linux compatibility is going to be horrendous UNLESS you've heard otherwise specifically about a particular model.

Lenovo has done something interesting in the last few years and blurred the lines between #1 and #2, so now it's a crapshoot. ASUS ruined their #2 tier stuff years ago by including gimmicky stuff like touch bars, and secondary displays without ANY support except for Windows.

For Linux compatibility, you need to make sure your components either already have driver support, or is made by a company who directly releases or contributes Linux drivers. AMD and Intel are top of that list, with Nvidia kinda/sorta doing the bare minimum for consumer-grade components, but full support for enterprise-grade stuff.

If you're not sure all the components in the machine you're buying already have Linux support, it's going to be a crapshoot. ASUS specifically makes crappy moves by including things that notoriously DON'T have native Linux support like: Broadcom chipsets, or random audio codecs and speakers that are essentially windows-only.

You can look around and see people's experiences with specific models of ROG, but even those are kind of iffy because of the above. Depending on what you want to use it for, you may be able to work with certain things not working, but if you're talking laptops and Linux, I'd steer clear of anything with Nvidia in it for the battery life alone.

Out of that bunch, ASUS will be your biggest crapshoot. Tuxedo best bet, but the price is never great.

Mint is fine, as the others have said, and there isn't going to be a WILD performance difference between any distros (+/- 5%, you can check Phoronix for benchmarks), so just pick whatever feels okay for you.

To expand on the general difference between distros: if you want something that is running the most up-to-date kernel versions and Mesa drivers, you'll want something that does rolling releases like Fedora, CachyOS (Arch-based), or Tumbleweed.

If you want something that is more generally stable and unchanged over time, and doesn't upgrade the kernel or drivers, stick with Mint LTSbor Ubuntu LTS.

That is not what that says at all...

You mentioned a problem, you've been given the solution, yet you're still here to rail against it...

It's a software setting, not hardware.

You need to enable hibernation: https://luisartola.com/solving-the-framework-laptop-battery-drain/

Framework is an easy rec. Maybe have a look at System76 if you're looking from Nvidia.

They pay well everywhere but the US.