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These days I was wondering what laptop GPU would be the easiest to maintain / simplest to configure from a laptop POV?

Considering NixOS (I see Nix as gentoo++) or arch.

Onboard Intel/amd? “Discrete” Intel/amd/nvidia?

Would prefer open source but am not Uber passionate (results > means).

Fictional use case is mid tier game development - ray tracing is nice but stability and minimal effort to keep stable while pushing decent amounts shader/polygons is more important vs peak perf/px. No bitbro / artificial guess.

Experiences & recommendos?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A basic Thinkpad E14 Gen3 with a Ryzen 7 5000.

What I liked about Lenovo is that I could tailor the laptop to my specifications on their site. I could order the machine with Linux pre-installed or with no OS. As I had no intention of sending any money to Microsoft, the value of the "Windows tax" went to doubling the systems' RAM.