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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I own an Omen 15 inch with 3060. It has some issues but it works fine. However, my next one will definitely be AMD.

    One major issue is that I have to use my desktop manager (mutter, for Gnome on Fedora) with the Nvidia drivers, not the integrated GPU of AMD, otherwise external monitors do not work at all. This is a problem because dedicated GPU cannot go to sleep amd constantly uses at least 15 watts, reducing the battery life.

    Another issue is, a lot of times, my laptop won't wake up after sleeping. I have checked the logs, and I am 90% sure that it is because I login to my desktop manager using dedicated GPU. If you don't need an external monitor, or if you have a dedicated mux switch, you should not have to face any of these problems.

    A few minor problems are that I cannot use the official builds with Nvidia drivers, if I want to use secure boot. For secure boot, I have to rely on third party developers for this. An issue I saw sometime ago was, when I used Manjaro, my maximum TDP of the GPU never exceeded 79 watts. When using Fedora, ot goes up to 95 watts. On Windows it used to go upto 100 watts. Also, there are some softwares like keyboard lighting manager, bios updater etc, which work on Windows only, not even on a VM. Also, the fans never exceed 4099 RPM on Linux, whereas on Windows they could go upto 6500. But I have always seen Linux to be 10-20% faster in my Blender render tests.

    I hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to DM.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    Thanks you so much for such detail reply.