So NVIDIA just doesn’t cut it on Linux/proton I’ve come to learn. Looking at the best bang//buck, it this the AMD card people are flocking to? 7800 XT maybe?

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    In my experience, as a nongamer just laptop user, Intel is way more stable than AMD too. Might consider an Intel GPU? But I only know the integrated ones on Laptops, which work really well

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      The dedicated Intel GPUs have nowhere near as much performance as an RX 7900. The video encoder is very good though.

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        Also stuff like waking up from suspend, random freezes and power management work better than on AMD. I would assume this also applies to the Arc GPUs?

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          Can’t say I’ve experienced any such issues on recent AMD UMA or dGPU systems; power management is pretty well documented and generally reliable without any need for user intervention. Curious as to which platforms were problematic in your experience for my own learning; it’s likely that anything pre-polaris was kind of wonky

          I’ve also not had any issues with Intel integrated graphics on Linux, but ANV on Arc is a bit messy with translation layers like vkd3d right now. The gen12 (DG1, RKL and later) driver & technology stack appears to be quite different.

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            No idea but a Thinkpad T495 with AMD Vega mobile graphics. Dont remember the generation.

            Fedora + systemd + KDE Plasma had always issues waking up from sleep. Needed to force shutdown a lot.

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              huh, interesting. Picasso (3000)? Raven Ridge (2000)?

              Similar if not practically identical chassis to my T14 Gen2a. My one is Cezanne based and the experience with fedora/wayland/gnome has been perfectly smooth. Did you spot any logs relating to those issues?

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                Picasso.

                No logs afaik. But that pile of crap doesnt even boot anymore, like no BIOS. Trying to fix it somehow.