Linux

The Dragonized edition comes with a bunch of pre-installed emus covering every need. I guess, that every edition of Garuda will be easy to use with emus. I have already great experience with Steam and Lutris.

Does someone know, if there is a battery with more capacity available than the original one? I want to use my P670 as a distro testing machine, but it is in need of a new battery after 8 years. Would be nice to have an upgrade on the 60Wh (4000mAh). I have already found compatible ones - with original capacity - for under 50€.

The same reason i start testing it. Rather easy to use, since a lot is accessible via system GUI, which normally would need terminal wizardy in Arch.

My main distro is still TuxedoOS, i have established Garuda as an Arch based distro as backup.

It's Arch with KDE and very vibrant themes. It offers a lot of automated processes for streamling fiddly Arch updating. It's my backup distro, my main is TuxedoOS.

I am using Linux, macOS and Windows 11 at the same time and all are running great for me. I am not the "move to guy", more the expanding one. Throw a machine at me and i can work with it.

ZorinOS is using a rather old kernel and is always late for security patches. It's looking awesome, but i did move away for security reasons. The same goes for ElementaryOS and Pop!OS. Shiny distributions with great visuals and features, but this comes with a price.

I am using my 2017 FanControl license from Obsidian computers (RIP) through Wine. Best fan and temp control i have ever had. Works as with Windows. Games through Steam, no issues there. Haven't used HWmonitor since switching to Linux. I am pretty sure there is one for Linux.

I got me a refurbished 2024 Lenovo Legion Pro 5 (2 years warranty) with a Ryzen 9 7945HX and GTX4060. 32gigs RAM and 2x1TB SSD. Running Ubuntu Pro for the moment. This thing is fast as hell. And outside gaming dead silent. Fantastic display (real 500 nits), fine keyboard and the overall quality & feel is great. I will add Windows 11 to the 2nd SSD soon, my "old" Clevo will be Linux-only from now on.

My new laptop has a Ryzen 9 CPU. Case closed.

Basically you should ditch the complete 13th and 14th gen Intel CPU (crashes, bugs and heat) and go back to 12th gen Alder lake or wait for the new mobile lineup in 2025.

There is a lot of talk going on regarding this topic. And i cannot get my head around it. "The current mobile CPU line from Intel is just bad, AMD is much better." Is it true, that only the HX models are affected by the bad overall performance or there much more to it? So just use an H model and you are fine? Or has AMD finally found a way to built better mobile CPU than Intel? Ryzen 7/9 are hyped for their energy efficiency and performancewise. Whats your opinion on this?

There are many free alternatives, but every one has its drawbacks regarding overall compatibility. I have tried them all, but none of them is good enough to be used as my daily driver office suite. I am running Office365 in the browser with Linux. I have kept LibreOffice on my desktop thou and i am always trying something out, but to no avail until today.

People are lazy. I don't think this will have much positive impact on Linux. They will try, but they have to figure sth out for more than 20 mins they are already out. Lazy morons all the way.

Linux already has great gaming support. Steam is running perfectly with Proton, Valve actively supporting its development. There is also the Steam Deck running Linux. Every game i came across in 2024 could be run on my laptop without issues. Yes, almost everything needs to be run through Steam and native support is very lacking, but overall i am very satisfied. The new Civilization VII from Firaxis will have native Linux support f.e.