Garunda on Acer Predator Helios Neo

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Hi everyone!

I’m thinking about switching my laptop to an Acer Predator Helios Neo (i7, 13th Gen, RTX4060) and I was wondering if anyone here has tried installing Garuda on this machine. I haven’t found any case of someone installing Garuda on this laptop yet, so if anyone has, how was your experience?

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https://linux-hardware.org

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Search engines are really something great…

wiki.archlinux.org

bbs.archlinux.org

r/AcerOfficial

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Maybe would be nice but I am few days older, but only a few insignificant ones :rofl:

But yes… ?

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Damn, my medication makes me so tired.

But I meant the model, not you, YMMD :slight_smile:

Apart from that, I wouldn’t buy anything from Intel or Nvidia anymore, especially not in notebooks.

But my old stuff in the PCs still works quite well; you have to be lucky in life sometimes. :smiley:

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I can empathize with the medication :pill: :pill: :pill:

I already realized that you didn’t mean me, but the model :wink:

And yes, Intel and NVidia are like the plague. Best of all in combination with Windows. Perfect match.
But I still have a few older hardware treasures too that still work perfectly.

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First and most important

  • Acer + Bios updates + only Linux and the incompatibility from the “devs” there, to insert a simple option for a bios update (inside bios) → for me nogo. :prohibited:
  • no support for Linux → :prohibited:

Secondly

  • Nvidia
    the open source driver (the “nouveau” modul inside the kernel) is not bad but default you need the prop. driver from nvidia (modul) and this is “closed source” → not so good.

  • 2x GPU
    Igpu + dgpu → without manual intervention and knowledge to handle this with linux,
    of course it’s possible, but not so “simple”.

Thirdly

  • hardware + look
    this laptop have a lot rgb stuff + different hardware control over bios then default.
    That you can all handle this inside linux without M$ → not “certain.”

Fourthly

  • Acer and most manufacturers produce too many models in this area. My mind, that make no sense. I tend to prefer a manufacturer with less model selection regardless of the operating system.

as info and post from elite (Linux & Tech News 9d ago)

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It’s not the same, but I have a Lenovo laptop with an 13th gen i5 and a 2050. The CPU is fine, but the GPU has some issues.

As mentioned before, getting the laptop to swap between the dGPU and iGPU can be a pain. TuxedoOS is the only distro I found that did it decently well.

It also had broken suspend/resume. The laptop would go to sleep, but couldn’t wake back up without a hard reboot. This was due to the dGPU. If I disabled it in the BIOS, suspend/resume worked correctly (but then no real GPU power).

I eventually switched the laptop back to Windows because I needed a device to run certain software that won’t work on Linux. I never would have bought the device, but it was given to me and I use it because I don’t have anything else that works.

In short, I don’t recommend Nvidia laptops on Linux. Maybe my issues were 2050 specific (it’s a weird chip that deservedly doesn’t get much love), but I wouldn’t wish them on anyone.

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