Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems?
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I’m no expert but I think AMD hardware works pretty well with Linux. That’s what I went with in a recent build. AMD ryzen CPU and a Radeon based GPU, installed Pop!_OS (System76) and it has been very ‘snappy’ so far about 5 months in. I don’t use a touchpad so I can’t speak to that, but Pop sounds right up your alley since the company does their own hardware too.
Notamoosen@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m seconding this. Admittedly it’s anecdotal, but I’ve always had great luck with Amd chipsets and especially their graphic cards both laptops and desktops. Also, this is somewhat opposite of your question, but I’ve always had better luck matching the distro to hardware rather than the other way around. In my specific instances I’ve had good luck with Red Hat based distros for hardware support (Fedora for my personal machines, Almalinux for business); specifically when handling hardware raid controllers and dedicated tpm chips.