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Friendly reminder: just don't buy nvidia
Many already have nvidia before they start with linux. I'm still on my 1060 from 2018.
I had one before, then 2060, then 2080 and finally 6800 (current one), how is your nvidia experience right now compared to 2018? Any better?
I started with linux begin 2019. I just use xorg so I don't know about wayland problems. I think a long time ago nvidia broke once and I switched to nvidia-dkms and it has worked fine since until recently where a mesa update broke xorg but I don't think that has to do with nvidia. Getting CUDA to work might be trouble though (I think I briefly tried once).
Another problem is that most manufacturers of laptops directed at the Linux crowd, for some reason I will never understand, insist on punching Nvidia hardware instead of AMD/ATI. How does that help?
Unfortunately for those of us that use Cuda features, AMD just really isn't that viable of an alternative. Anyone who's had to deal with ROCM can attest to this...
As soon as AMD is competitive in price/performance in my region. I won't give them money just becauae they have open source drivers.
All these laptops make a circle... All these laptops make a circle... ;)