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465 points susanthenerd | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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bodge5000 ◴[26 Aug 25 16:12 UTC] No.45028546[source]▶
I'm glad the AMD GPU option still exists, I don't have great experience with NVIDIA on Linux. The rest of the upgrades, like the new top cover and keyboard, are very welcome
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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[26 Aug 25 16:56 UTC] No.45029212[source]▶
I've never had anything but positive experience with Nvidia on Linux (which I've been using for 5 years or so now). That said, I'm on a desktop and not a laptop, so the hardware isn't the same. My experience might not be representative of what laptop users see.
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2. danudey ◴[26 Aug 25 17:13 UTC] No.45029479[source]▶
On a laptop with multiple GPUs (Intel and nvidia Quadro) running Ubuntu and Wayland, trying to get the nvidia card working has been a nightmare. Until a recent reinstall, I couldn't load the nvidia driver or I wouldn't be able to log in to my system (graphically, I mean). If anything changed on my system to remove the blacklist I had for those modules I'd have to spend an hour trying to figure out what changed so that I could get back to work.

Now that I have it working I see random glitches here and there that I can't pin down. Some Electron apps I have to turn off GPU acceleration or they won't get any windows showing up - they launch, the process exists, they're in the dock as active, but the window doesn't appear at all.

Getting a new laptop from work to replace this one and I'm really hoping it won't have nvidia hardware - or at least, if it does I can disable it and the Intel GPU will work fine also.