Linux on an EXPENSIVE Gaming Laptop ft. Pop!_OS

Referenced:

00:00 - Introductions
02:12 - The Good
05:14 - The Bad
08:15 - Final Thoughts

My Workstation (PAID LINKS)

[KuruGDI]

2:59 Let's just take a second to positively note that Linux does support both XBox and DualShock controllers NATIVELY.
If you have the kernel version of 5.12 or later it works right out of the box.

[yamankumar]

Finally someone is talking about it! Fractional scaling has been giving me so much problems in all DEs except KDE. My display only looks good at 125% scaling (otherwise everything is too small or too large). But I get massive screen tearing on my intel graphics whenever I use Fractional scaling on X11 based systems. In wayland the scaling itself is good but XWayland apps become very blurry. It is a big pain and has kept me from switching full time to Linux. Thanks for addressing this!

[Videohead-eqcy]

Whenever you see an ACPI error in a kernel error, its usually the manufacturer's fault for sticking to Microsoft's unofficial standard for their ACPI implementation rather than the real OS-agnostic ACPI standard. If your manufacture isn't totally incompetent, a little bit of relief can be gained by adding acpi_OSI="Linux" in Grub boot options, or just straight up acpi=off which is generally a bad idea but that's the compromise some machines need to not throw errors at you every boot.

[raver-umiu]

Great video! I am using PopOs on a Razer Blade 15 2020 exclusively. Runs like a charm. That laptop only did 15 min on Windows to check if everything is working. Keyboard lighting could be changed with Open Razer. Back when I bought it I was interested in purchasing a System 76 laptop but the Razer was 200 Euro cheaper with similar specs and a nicer look and feel of the machine itself. Using Cpu Freq Indicator from the Gnome extensions during browsing and office work the fan almost never turns on. Great combination so far.

[xtremeandroidsupport]

Same I Hated Fractional Scaling in All Gnome Distros Linux Lite Surpirsingly Had HiDPI Helper And Also All KDE Based Distros Work Amazing with Fractional Scaling

[kone]

i’ve actually been looking at these laptops to get ready for college. thank you very much for making a review on it to let me how it runs linux 🙏

[gaspar]

I bought a Asus Vivobook 11th gen core i7 with mx350 2B and 16 GB ram, ssd of 512 nvme and added a sata 500 ssd wd, and installed pop os on it.
Windows for casual gaming and Linux for daily work.
Couldn't be more happy

[richev]

Scaling has been my only real complaint about Pop on a laptop. I don’t have the issues you’ve had with resolution but I’m a 1080p pleb so maybe that’s why.

[eyad.elghareeb]

I suggest using fedora with such system, the vanilla gnome experience on a laptop is incomparable to any thing, also it is bleeding edge yet stable, nvidia drivers from rpm fusion

[theoldschoolprogrammer]

I am using Asus VivoBook K15 which is new one comes with AMD Ryzen 55000u and a beautifull Oled Screen (100% DCI-P3 ) I installed Arch Linux on It without a second Thought and It just Works just the way I wanted....

[michaelr.]

I'm so glad someone has finally done a test like this. I have checked Reddit and searched online for opinions regarding something like this, with no luck.
Everyone usually says, why would you do that. Why not? I ask. Why not run Linux bare-metal on a high-powered machine. So THANK YOU.

[voodoovinny]

I have to say that people really should quit claiming that "Linux works on old hardware". When I first started trying out with Linux, it had serious issues with nVidia video cards. The support has gotten better for nVidia, but now it seems that Linux has issues with AMD video cards which everyone always claims "just works". Linux has "moved on" from old hardware and in the process anything older than the AMD RX cards now have issues when trying to load drivers to actually utilize the video card itself instead of it just being a 2D video card. Examples of these "old cards" being left by AMD and by Linux is the issues when trying to load Vulkan and the confusion with the Radeon, AMDGPU, and AMDGPU-PRO drivers. It also does not help that some distros decide they don't want to use Grub anymore which seems to be where most of the instructions point to about correcting these issues.

[josephdegarmo]

The bugs in KDE when using an external 4K display even with 2x scaling sometimes drive me batty, but XFCE seems to work better with this setup despite having to install HiDPI-specific xfwm4 themes. I disable the laptop screen and enable only the external screen in the display settings. Cinnamon works perfectly, but is more CPU-intensive.

[partymetroid]

You can change GIMP's icon size in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Icon Theme

[aaronb]

Track pad gestures can be customized via Touche and vertical workspaces can be disabled by turning off the Cosmic Workspaces extension in the Extensions app. In fact, you can turn on wayland and get the default gestures for gnome 40 without messing with the touche app.

[jy]

I hope that linux compatibility grows for apple arm cpus somewhere down the line. I would love to use linux on my 16in pro, because I love pretty much about the laptop physically. MacOS for me is alright, but I much prefer a linux distro, like what I use on my desktop rig.

[arimcbrown]

I love Pop!_OS, but what really grinds my gears is the lack of display/background/resolution settings for the GDM3 greeter

[TheSolidfoxhound]

FIX 👏🏻FRACTIONAL 👏🏻 SCALING 👏🏻 IN LINUX 👏🏻

[wayneztube]

Pop_OS has some really great ideas and direction they are taking with Cosmic but sadly it is very much a work in progress. I like hot key launchers but theirs just is not as good as most distro's and if you accidentially hit the super key while full screen gaming the whole screen will dither out you game session.

[mv-hkrlbdjq]

There is a ROG Control Center for linux isn't hard to install and gives you control over you RGB keyboard lights