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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by nicolaslem on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:51PM (#29984747)
Every laptop is a linux laptop if you stay away from nvidia and get last year's hardware.
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by encryptluks2 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:45PM (#29985498)
Again, no issues on Arch. People running other distros may have issues due to slower package and kernel updates.
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by Nilrem404 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:18PM (#29985971)
btw
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:19PM (#29985115)
honestly since 20.04 ubuntu or so, nvidia works pretty well on linux (other than battery life on laptops which is still not good).
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by aidenn0 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:44PM (#29985484)
If all you need is a framebuffer, nvidia is fine. However I regularly run into 3d applications that either only run (either at all, or without significant artifacts) with nouveau or only run with the nvidia binary drivers. I reboot fairly regularly just to switch between the two.
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:55PM (#29990113)
huh, that hasn't been my experience at all. I don't play a ton of demanding games, but pretty much everything I have played (on 1440p monitor, RTX 2060) is capable of hitting framecaps.
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by aidenn0 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:26AM (#29990631)
Maybe my card is to old? 1050Ti
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by adgjlsfhk1 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:17AM (#29994647)
I'd expect that to be pretty good at 1080p. No idea what's going wrong.
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Re:Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Li... by aidenn0 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:39AM (#29995974)
1200p, but I don't run anything demanding. Some games lock-up with binary drivers, others crash nouveau and compositing window-managers have different artifiacts with either oen.
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