This here is why its best to support even a dollar to the projects you like or use.
I don’t like snaps as much as anybody but its still a sad thing to see.
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Not really for us who have icon packs but cool none the less. A new icon early. “They are working on a full icon revamp and it’s also looking good.”
OP.
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Lately I’m starting to have issues with my laptop with the webcam connection; I unplug the cable and plug it back and it works… sometimes, and can fail later randomly. Honestly it’s starting to worry me that it might fail randomly when I need it the most. Plus I’ve been having driver issues with NVIDIA for some time.
If I want to buy a new performance laptop for Linux use, what would you guys recommend? Desktops are more powerful but are absolutely impossible to carry in a plane, so I always buy laptop.
NVIDIA has a poor history with Linux… AMD are often recommended. But honestly, I’m searching “laptop gamer radeon” and there really isn’t much at all. Why are nearly all laptops running on NVIDIA?
Then I think there were certain issues with certain recent NVIDIA cards, and with some of the latest Intel CPUs… which ones are to avoid?
Any recommendations welcomed.
I use it for web browsing and emails mostly.
And programming, Davinci Resolve, gaming, etc.
Looking in the $1200-1600 range.
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You can try tuxedo or slimbook.
*Note tuxidos require a kernel patch for proper driver support. AUR (en) - tuxedo-drivers-dkms
Personally i don’t recommend framework. There pricing and build feel just are a bit off.
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Tuxedo is in Germany and they cannot ship to Mexico. Same with Slimbook.
Options are a lot more limited in Mexico.
Thinkpad maybe? but you might have to look up what ones are best compatible since they some times have fingerprint readers an such.
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I think this is not the main problem 
My did not work, so I do not use it like on the other notebook 
You can check for drivers on
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One thing I don’t get is; I’m hearing a lot of talks of how AMD is beating Intel, and how AMD is better than NVidia for Linux.
But 90%+ of laptops are still NVidia, and 80% are still intel; and the few AMD ones really lag behind in terms of performance. I don’t see myself moving away from Intel+NVidia with a new purchase.
Honestly Intel is just beating themself.
AMD is considered better on Linux due to the drivers. NVIDIA is just catching up. But since last year NVIDIA drivers can be considered usable on Linux.
Honestly purely depends on you what you prefer and what is your $$$.
But I think for gaming the X3D is just superior.
Personally I am now waiting for 9070XT to go out, to see if its worth to replace my 3080.
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amn:-D
dont get someone wrong. I also have a Laptop but its a older generations from 2012 . Intel core and nvidia 870 graphic card. I can still play gta games and more games too. But i dont have hibernation, suspended or Sleep problem with Amd cpu,gpu or amd video cards.last 6 years ago.i have an nvida card by a friend he used my gtx 1050ti cyberus edition and is happy with it to play his usual games.
Was looking for Radon laptops, really couldn’t find much at all! It looks like they’re only targeting desktop computers.
Yes and no.
NVIDIA is more powerful in performance currently, well after the 5000 series actually I am not sure, but overall NVIDIA has been better for gaming. So when Vendors create “Gaming Laptops” they target gaming CPU + gaming GPU.
The other side of the story is that AMD GPU based laptops are always sold out 
There are AMD GPU laptops but usually they are very fast sold out lol. When I was 2 years ago looking for a laptop for a friend I found a lot of AMD GPU laptops but all were “out of stock”…
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The funny change now days is no one wants a intel laptop since amd is still better there on x86 this is also before the whole cpus destroying themselves.
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Yop, thats as well true from my observations. I had very hard time even find AMD CPU laptops in some cases.
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I can’t stress anyone enough how much of a bad idea this is on large a scale environment. AI really needs to be the last resort to just confirm things or look things over. You can’t even trust AI to not put in bugs in segments of code that are other wise perfectly functional. This technology is defiantly not ready for “bug detection, and security vulnerabilities”
I would like to show the Garuda Community for a moment what AI screws up actually look like for a moment. If this is considered spam, please forgive me, I just want to make a point here for a moment.
I asked ChatGPT a process controls question, this one specifically:
Here was ChatGPT’s response:
I ask
Please go over Step (b) in more detail
Here I catch the system unable to do basic math, and I reply for step 3, you have K=-8+/-sqrt(64)/32, shouldn't the 64 be 320?
So I ask, why would you be giving me bad information like this? what lead you to making a mistake like this?
So I reply:
Take a closer look at this for a moment as to “What led to the mistake”. Should this have been a very complicated process control question, it’s possible it could have been missed. That was a very small and tiny mistake that could have changed the outcome in a very big way. This is just basic math, stuff you learn out of high school, the quadratic equation.
Lets say this was a control system to mass produce some medical equipment or something? Perhaps a defibrillator or a heart rate monitor, mistakes like this can get someone killed.
Just think, this is what the 1% wants to replace lawyers, doctors and law enforcement with. However, that is a different issue, the point is, if it can make math mistakes like this when it has millions of transistors to crunch math at it’s core, how can anyone trust this technology to properly look over code?
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I think that this is under-stated.
First of all, buying from the USA has incredibly better offers than in Mexico, so it has to be bought there.
Second, if I look specifically for Radeon (Radeon RX 7700S), then I get much more interesting options, and also considerably cheaper, than their Intel+Nvidia 4060 counter-parts.
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Sadly I can see only one side of the market that is EU based. US or other parts of the world could have a different story.
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Also which laptop brands are good/bad in Linux in terms of BIOS updateability and compatibility?
I’ve used it on mac an iso for a long while now. it will be nice to have another choice thats not blink or geko
its to bad they will be using gtk though
This is quite a bit off topic, but if you want to get any sugestions in for the orion browser here’s were to do it Orion for Linux: Page 3 - Orion Public Issue Tracker
yeah they might not take everything but if we can get real webkit it means we actually get some choice. Blink(google) Geko(mozzila) or webkit (apple & others) … then there is webkitgtk but its pretty useless.
Servo and ladybird are no where ready yet but ladybird is getting there.