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[Solved] Sorry if this not related to this community because I don't know where to ask, but should I buy this laptop? and does it play nice with Linux. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Price: 370$
Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)

CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
Ram: 16GB
Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] M600 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

You should watch some of the recent drama about Asus and reconsider.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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