My Predator Helios from 2018 is working just fine with win10, but I really want to move over to linux.

Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear comrades opinions.

This Laptop is mostly for gaming.

  • albigu
    41·
    11 months ago

    Be wary of GPU drivers. AMD used to work fine, but nvidia can sometimes get wonky and either make booting slower than it should be or just outright break your X server. But overall games work super smoothly nowadays with Proton, and you can even run non-Steam games with it.

    And if you’re not acquainted with it, the Arch Wiki is always useful, but specially for arch-based distros like that one.

    • Cauê@lemmy.eco.brOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Thanks, comrade. The system recognized my Nvidia 1060, hopefully It will run fine.

      What’s X server? is it related to X11 thing?

      • albigu
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s one of the window system on top of which gnome or other desktops run. But I misspoke there, what usually got messed up was the display manager, specifically lightdm.

        But if everything is running fine I doubt you’ll have any future issues. Just remember to check nvidia-smi in case of FPS drops to see if the game is using the GPU.

        • Cauê@lemmy.eco.brOPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Thanks for the hint, I will take note.

          Some people mentioned that the system defaults to the onboard GPU instead of the dedicated one, so it is good to learn this command.