These days I was wondering what laptop GPU would be the easiest to maintain / simplest to configure from a laptop POV?

Considering NixOS (I see Nix as gentoo++) or arch.

Onboard Intel/amd? “Discrete” Intel/amd/nvidia?

Would prefer open source but am not Uber passionate (results > means).

Fictional use case is mid tier game development - ray tracing is nice but stability and minimal effort to keep stable while pushing decent amounts shader/polygons is more important vs peak perf/px. No bitbro / artificial guess.

Experiences & recommendos?

  • Quazatron
    2•11 months ago

    I second this, my all AMD Lenovo ThinkPad is the stablest machine I’ve ever had, even when I’m cooking it by playing some more demanding Steam titles.

    I went with a laptop for the flexibility, sometimes I game, sometimes I just want to take my system with me.

    In your case, go for a workstation instead.

    • GreyscaleEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      Which thinkpad did you get? I’m looking at sunsetting my x1 extreme gen 2.

      • Quazatron
        2•11 months ago

        A basic Thinkpad E14 Gen3 with a Ryzen 7 5000.

        What I liked about Lenovo is that I could tailor the laptop to my specifications on their site. I could order the machine with Linux pre-installed or with no OS. As I had no intention of sending any money to Microsoft, the value of the “Windows tax” went to doubling the systems’ RAM.