don't get an asus. they've got terrible Linux support and their vapor chambers are designed to fail after a year and a half of ownership causing cooling to drastically decline in quality

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Dang. Now ive heard bad stuff about every laptop maker. Only Framework is allowing us to easily change the parts though so maybe that is the play after all. The only thing is I want the absolute fastest possible gpu cpu AMD only lol. I can maybe compromise for upgradable parts.

[–] moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean with the quality of amd's CPUs and gpus nowadays you're really comparing excellent to even more excellent

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

It is tru but, I kinda want no compromises and love watching tech advance. Rn I get 50-70 fps with dips into 30 on Lethal Company with the AMD 780m. Maybe the next one gets me to 90. Also then maybe battery life starts to improve once the FPS target is reached, stuff like that. But the current state of things is already awesome and definitely playable.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My G14 is still going strong, and it's 4? 5? years old. I'm the second owner too.

What doesn't work under Linux? Backlight control, keyboard backlight (including RGB on other models) is well supported, anime matrix works too. I can easily set charge limits, fan speeds and power profiles.

My model doesn't have a webcam but the built in mics work well.

[–] moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

my Asus laptop required me to edit a file in the EFI partition to change the fan mode. not only that, half of the function keys didn't work on Linux and the back light didn't work at all. also, the audio didn't work

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Had you installed anything from the ASUS Linux crew? https://asus-linux.org/

NixOS also have hardware modules for many laptops: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master

For my specific model: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/asus/zephyrus/ga401/default.nix

[–] moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 25 minutes ago

I believe my experience predates and/or was not compatible at the time with ASUS-linux