Friend…$700-1000 is NOT a premium. Especially not for what you’re actually getting. You need to reevaluate your life 🤣

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Sleep/hibernation is mostly software config in Linux. The S-statebon every main board will support sleep states 2-4 at a minimum, and you can configure your particular setup to do hibernation without an issue.

Get resource usage under utilization and nvidia-smi output and post here.

Also, are you sure it’s input lag, or is the entire machine pausing and hiccuping?

The main issue is that a lot of these bigger manufacturers have 3 tiers of hardware they kick out:

1. consumer-grade/junk
2. professional/developer/niche
3. enterprise hardened

If you find a model of something you’re looking to buy for sale at big box stores, it’s going to be total junk: windows-centric hardware with low reliability, but really cheap to produce. Stay away from those, as their Linux compatibility is going to be horrendous UNLESS you’ve heard otherwise specifically about a particular model.

Lenovo has done something interesting in the last few years and blurred the lines between #1 and #2, so now it’s a crapshoot. ASUS ruined their #2 tier stuff years ago by including gimmicky stuff like touch bars, and secondary displays without ANY support except for Windows.

For Linux compatibility, you need to make sure your components either already have driver support, or is made by a company who directly releases or contributes Linux drivers. AMD and Intel are top of that list, with Nvidia kinda/sorta doing the bare minimum for consumer-grade components, but full support for enterprise-grade stuff.

If you’re not sure all the components in the machine you’re buying already have Linux support, it’s going to be a crapshoot. ASUS specifically makes crappy moves by including things that notoriously DON’T have native Linux support like: Broadcom chipsets, or random audio codecs and speakers that are essentially windows-only.

You can look around and see people’s experiences with specific models of ROG, but even those are kind of iffy because of the above. Depending on what you want to use it for, you may be able to work with certain things not working, but if you’re talking laptops and Linux, I’d steer clear of anything with Nvidia in it for the battery life alone.

Out of that bunch, ASUS will be your biggest crapshoot. Tuxedo best bet, but the price is never great.

Mint is fine, as the others have said, and there isn’t going to be a WILD performance difference between any distros (+/- 5%, you can check Phoronix for benchmarks), so just pick whatever feels okay for you.

To expand on the general difference between distros: if you want something that is running the most up-to-date kernel versions and Mesa drivers, you’ll want something that does rolling releases like Fedora, CachyOS (Arch-based), or Tumbleweed.

If you want something that is more generally stable and unchanged over time, and doesn’t upgrade the kernel or drivers, stick with Mint LTSbor Ubuntu LTS.

That is not what that says at all…

You mentioned a problem, you’ve been given the solution, yet you’re still here to rail against it…

It’s a software setting, not hardware.

You need to enable hibernation: https://luisartola.com/solving-the-framework-laptop-battery-drain/

Framework is an easy rec. Maybe have a look at System76 if you’re looking from Nvidia.

Right at the top:

FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support.

Don’t even know if you can find them right now, but the Minisforum V3 is a stunner as a dev machine and tablet. Great Linux compatibility (even the fingerprint sensor works), and great design. The only downside is the battery life being about 2-3 hrs. Could probably get 5-6hrs out of the pixel tablet, though Android is awful for actual development.

Sure seems like they just released one last month: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/bios-and-drivers-downloads-rJ3PaCexh

Well this is one of the worst takes I’ve seen around here 🤣

1. Not sure where you’re getting this from. The value comes from buying a known Linux compatible platform at a similar price point to any other manufacturer. The Desktop is the first AMD Ryzen Max+ platform on the market in that form factor, and those chips are well above the performance of any other Ryzen chip on the market. Fair price as well.

2. This comment is disingenuous at best, and just wrong overall. They were slow on their firmware updates during their initial pilot shipments while the platform was still in validation, so they were making delayed changes to firmware in light of that until they cleared that hurdle. Been regular updates since. Also, firmware rarely decides the overall security of a hardware platforms unless known vulnerable portions are found and then intentionally NOT fixed, which is not what happened with all of that.

3. Absolutely wrong. The price point is the same as any other machine in the same segment, which is not the general consumer crap Lenovo kicks out, but the slightly elevated professional segment. If you’re not looking for that in a new device, guess what, they have refurbs at have the price. Both conditionals right there completely invalidate whatever point you’re trying to make, especially when you’re buying for the stability on Linux as OP mentioned, and it’s a crapshoot at best with any other manufacturer in their cheaper segments of machines.

I don’t know if you’re shilling for some specific point here, but you need to get informed.

Fedora

Describe more about your use-case. Tuxedo is just alright, but a bit overpriced IMO.

The he absolute best performance and value laptop or desktop on the market is going to be a Framework, for instance, but maybe that’s not exactly what you want.

Config wouldn’t BLOCK it from being detected, that’s the problem.

Have you checked for a BIOS update recently?

1. To launch apps: Super key, type in name of app, hit enter. That’s it.

2. Window Management: good writeup from that team: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/ Quick cheat sheet for relevant keys there as well: https://thedroidguy.com/gnome-desktop-keyboard-shortcuts-for-efficient-workflow-and-navigation-1263904

Then I would try the above and make sure you don’t have a mixer confused somewhere.