Alacritty felt too slow and was missing settings I wanted (like mousewheel scroll) due to devs being opinionated. Kitty has been fast and flexible for me.

Yeah, kobo does too. I assumed it was a proprietary flavor which was pretty locked down, is that not the case?

I vaguely remember there being a FOSS OS you can put on Kobos, can you also do that on Boox?

Thats via fwupd, thinkpads specifically get this because Lenovo officially supports Ubuntu on them. Other lenovo laptops don’t get this!

I mean they do have a point: the framework that the game is targeting is DX11, so if it looks bad it is (broadly) because of an issue in translating DX11 instructions to Vulkan…

Level1 has looked at the B580 on Linux specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0o6505JAc

I think most of the issues with games not working should be the same between windows and Linux driver versions, and HardwareUnboxed has done some pretty exhaustive testing recently on the “maturity” of the drivers by testing a couple hundred games for obvious driver problems.

I have an AMD 5900HS iGPU and a 3070M in my laptop. I’ve had no issues on Mint (with the auto-installed Optimus in the Nvidia Prime applet) or with PopOS. If you want to use passthrough, SR-IOV GPU sharing is not an option for AMD iGPUs IIRC, and I know it doesn’t work for NVIDIA dGPUs, so you’d need to pass the whole dGPU through to the Windows VM to get hardware acceleration.

For Figma, I would say the unofficial Electron wrapper or the online version is likely your best bet in terms of reliability. If it’s just using the browser mechanisms for hwaccel (no funky accessing windows resources behind the scenes) if you run Optimus in the “on-demand” mode the webpage should be able to access the dgpu for hardware acceleration just fine. Optimus is a lot better than it was a few years ago.

By default, when your HDD cannot be mounted as writeable, it mounts as read-only instead. If you used Windows before, the Windows hibernate and fast boot functions can basically “reserve” the partition, causing it to only be writeable as read only. If you have windows still installed, is it possible that it booted into Windows to do an update or you’ve booted into it since? If so, I’d recommend disabling fast boot in Windows.

If there’s no Windows still installed on your system, I would reccomend changing the mount options on the hdd to: nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,rw,exec. You can change these directly by editing /etc/fstab, but I would recommend against editing the fstab table manually – if you edit the wrong entry, it can prevent your system from booting. I’ve not had good luck with the KDE partition manager, but if you install gparted and right click on the partition it should give you options to change the mount options, and you can add the options above there.

FYI, mount options are read left to right by the system, so if you really want rw (read/write) and exec to be true and not overriden by other mount options, put them at the end of the mount option line.

Oh, how the turn tables…

My understanding is the big change here is that they’re specifically making it available to other handheld manufacturers, which is huge, because windows handhelds have not been great because of how much the bloat of Windows steals performance and battery life. They’re making steps to make SteamOS (I.e. Linux in general) the default OS for handhelds and non-console dedicated gaming machines in general.

If it works, it will put tremendous pressure on publishers to support linux, which is great.

Yeah, choosing Arch as the base of something that’s supposed to be newbie-friendly and stable is wild, but it seems to have been working so far.

To be fair, that was in their own financial best interest. Since arbitrations are charged a fee per customer someone figured out that you can do an effective “class action” against valve by having many people submit the same arbitration claim against valve and costing them so much through the arbitration fees that it it was almost impossible for them to cone out on top regardless of the outcome of the arbitration (iirc).

They changed to allowing lawsuits because they can request those to be merged, and therefore its cost-effective for them to fight them.

And you saw how that turned out for them…😂

Do you mean a dedicated gaming flavor of Linux? Because otherwise, isn’t that just a console?

Have you tried configuring the amd-pstate driver in GRUB? That helped me a fair bit with battery life, though having an ROG laptop also meant I was already using asusd, which tripled my battery life just by having reasonable fan and power level settings. I hadn’t had any luck with TLP either.

Mint is meant for “just works” setups especially for folks new to Linux. Never had an issue.

A couple added notes after rereading your post:

• Linux shouldn’t care about the specific laptop, you might want to try searching for the 365 SOC instead, that ought to give you more info.
• Strix Point should give you substantially better compute power and efficiency than the 8000 series, so you can have your cake and eat it too.
• on a reliability note, I recommended a Yoga to a friend a couple years ago, and within a year the hinge broke and shattered the screen. She now has a thinkpad, which is a lot more durable.

The zen 5 chip should work fine if you’re on kernel 6.8+ (which is when zen5 IDs were introduced), but you might have some poor battery life. Here are some testimonials from folks who ran 6.11 on it and it performed well.

The note about enabling the amd_pstate driver was interesting, evidently it was not default in my system! The “guided” mode seems great.

AFAIK 9000 is desktop, AI is laptop. But the naming gets worse! Their new laptop chip coming out in a couple months is the “Ryzen AI MAX+ Pro 395”. It’s horrifyingly bad naming.

Ive had similar issues on both windows and Linux, seems to be a hardware thing:

For some microSD adapters you specifically have to plug the SD card into the adapter before the adapter is plugged into the computer. I assume its something about the computer only registering a “new device” when the USB is plugged in.