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A similar question was raised some day's ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I'm searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game's and also native Linux games. As OS, I like to use Manjaro Gnome.

Should I better buy all of AMD (if yes, which CPI, GPU) or Intel/Nvidia? Or Intel CPU and AMD GPU? Which combination is the right one with best performance for a casual gamer? I prefer FPS games, if that's important...

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[–] stargazingpenguin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good to know. Which model do you have? I've been eyeing up something along the lines of the Pangolin when I next upgrade. I've been a fan of Pop for some time, and I'm currently running it on my three main computers. It's great on my Dev One and I've also got it on an older Alienware laptop. Their customer support is pretty good, I contacted them about information on a keyboard a while back and it seemed they knew what they were doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a Ryzen 7 Pangolin, I bought it almost 2 years ago.

[–] stargazingpenguin 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Friend of mine bought a Pangolin, anything to watch out for?

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

I had my cpu fan die after a year, so maybe that. They replaced it really fast though.