Linux has huge problems on my laptop, cause HP in their infinite wisdom decided to disable S3 sleep at firmware level. I still find myself dreading the thought of reinstalling windows though. I’d rather manually shut off my laptop every time I stop using it than go back to that awful proprietary OS.
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FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I really, really wish Linux worked better on my gaming laptop. I used it for many years on desktop as my only OS (hopped many distros and ended back on mint) but on laptops I just can’t find a distro without considerable issues. Whether it be display scaling problems, performance, not being able to switch my video card mode, etc…
RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hperrin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I just got a Framework laptop, and it’s really refreshing to have everything (literally everything) just work out of the box.
Bulletdust@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Running a 4k 27" monitor under KDE Neon 2.0.4, fractional scaling works better than it does under Windows.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
nvidia card im guessing? Switching using nvidia is almost never fun. Theoretically i think proprietary drivers should maybe support this, but i’ve never tried.
Scaling problems are usually related to having multiple monitors, so i’m confused that you were having those, unless you were using multiple monitors, then it would make sense.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Yep, Nvidia. As for the scaling issues I’m not sure either. UI elements were fine but no matter what desktop environment I used, some things (though I can only remember steam immediately) would be super tiny in full 1080p instead of scaling with the rest of the applications. Didn’t try tiling window managers because honestly I don’t enjoy them so no comment on that one.
erwan@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I know it sucks to have to discard some manufacturers because of their poor Linux support but that’s where we are.
I prefer to pick manufacturers that support Linux than having to go back to Windows.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’ll probably look more into it, but the only reason I didn’t before is because I couldn’t find one in my price range with reasonable specs that ran on Linux. I have a G15 5515 that cost me around 500 when I got it, has an rtx 3050 and 16gb ram with a ryzen 5. System76 didn’t really have any comparable offerings for that price at the time.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
i can say, having used a WM, that generally, they come with nothing fancy, unless you get a less spicy one, so you would be experiencing a lot of non configured garbage not work very much. Scaling might be fine though. Although from what i can vaguely recall, if it’s with steam exclusively, steam can sometimes require a specific font type, otherwise things can get weird, might be that.
Also have you ever tried a tiling WM? If not i would recommend it, they’re weird, but the amount of time i no longer spend moving between windows is SO much lower. Probably pick something that comes as a full package though. Otherwise things will be very exciting.
a lot of applications also have an individual scaling, which can sometimes cause issues, i had that problem with GIMP for instance, though i was manually able to configure it’s scaling to fix it.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That’s usually just a setting in the desktop environment. I don’t know about GNOME or others, but KDE generally has a lot of customization like this.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Wait, could you explain? So KDE can control scaling at the application level? Because I was able to set the scaling in the actual settings just fine and it worked for the UI and most applications. I just remember a few wouldn’t scale up no matter what I did.