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    8 months ago

    Question: Is buying a Laptop with a Nvidia graphic card is bad idea for Linux(XFCE user)?

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      8 months ago

      Yes, IMO. If you haven’t bought the hardware yet, there’s no reason to subject yourself to the headache of lacking Linux support, instead support companies that value open source.
      AMD and Intel GPU’s simply work out of the box with all features.

      And it’s not like on a laptop you need the highest of high end graphics acceleration anyway.

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        8 months ago

        I use the integrated graphics of my Ryzen 9 7940HS and they’re more than enough for all workloads. Light weight gaming also works pretty well on it.

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      8 months ago

      Most of the serious problems have to do with Wayland, so xfce will be fine. I’m running it on a t480 with a geforce mx150 just fine.

      If it’s a good deal, take it. Even if you do decide to switch ot Wayland at some point, those issues should be mostly fixed soon™

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        Yea XFCE use X protocol for now but maybe in next release it will use Wayland that’s why I was asking and Thanks