My Predator Helios from 2018 is working just fine with win10, but I really want to move over to linux.

Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear comrades opinions.

This Laptop is mostly for gaming.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    41·
    2 年前

    Be wary of GPU drivers. AMD used to work fine, but nvidia can sometimes get wonky and either make booting slower than it should be or just outright break your X server. But overall games work super smoothly nowadays with Proton, and you can even run non-Steam games with it.

    And if you’re not acquainted with it, the Arch Wiki is always useful, but specially for arch-based distros like that one.

    • CauêOPEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      Thanks, comrade. The system recognized my Nvidia 1060, hopefully It will run fine.

      What’s X server? is it related to X11 thing?

      • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        2 年前

        It’s one of the window system on top of which gnome or other desktops run. But I misspoke there, what usually got messed up was the display manager, specifically lightdm.

        But if everything is running fine I doubt you’ll have any future issues. Just remember to check nvidia-smi in case of FPS drops to see if the game is using the GPU.

        • CauêOPEnglish
          2·
          2 年前

          Thanks for the hint, I will take note.

          Some people mentioned that the system defaults to the onboard GPU instead of the dedicated one, so it is good to learn this command.

        • CauêOPEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          Should I look into replacing it already with Wayland?