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Linux is generally a rock solid delight on any AMD desktop, but insists on being at least an occasional pain in the ass on basically every laptop in the world and anything with Nvidia.

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Yep I only buy laptops/computers that are known to be compatible with linux or outright allow it as an option. Drivers are the biggest issue by far, especially video and power suspend modes. Life gets a bit easier when you get windows off the brain

My comment was about switching. I’m not going to throw out my whole perfectly good PC in order to switch, nor should I be expected to.

Which is fine. But when you're next in the market, maybe look for a machine that supports both OSes well so you can have another look.

I agree that some people responding are assholes, though not the person you replied to here.

Sure, that’s fair, maybe in 5-10 years when a full rebuild is necessary I’ll consider it again, the cycle continues.

That's cool, just don't expect linux to handle infinite hardware, it will never happen. Windows doesn't either, your hardware was likely designed to handle windows from the beginning. We as a community welcome people but we aren't obligated to make their computers compatible because that's an impossible goal

Perhaps, but I also have been told that nvidia should work now and works for many people yet I keep running into issues. Also, many of my issues were unrelated to the graphics card.

Full Intel or full AMD laptops are usually fine in my experience. It's when you have both an integrated and a discrete GPU, especially Nvidia, that things start to fall apart.

My AMD card does not work with any Linux Distro. Just flashes constantly.

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