Zorin

If you have an Nvidia card, just remember to select Nvidia drivers when booting from the USB for the first time

are we gatekeeping running now?

Zorin

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This command should tell you if its throttling at all, it can be caused by power issues or In my case it was a thermal slowdown to prevent components getting damaged.

While running the games with issues, open a terminal and try:

nvidia-smi -q -d PERFORMANCE   

Ive heard hood things about the FLX1 but I havent tried it myself.

Im very tempted.

If you havent played this already, you are in for a treat:

https://veloren.net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIuypUoAhc

You can vastly improve any laptops speakers with “easy effects” but some peeps have gone to great length to create a profile for the framework laptops:

https://community.frame.work/t/guide-framework-dsp-better-linux-audio/44645

and

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/linux-docs/tree/main/easy-effects

Cheers, this is what I will go with!

Any advice/tips on getting linux setup on this laptop? Ive only ever used NVIDIA before so Im not sure what to expect.

Im currently using cachyos on a different setup aswell, big fan.

Any advice/tips on getting linux setup on this laptop? Ive only ever used NVIDIA before so Im not sure what to expect.

Cheers! looks like a good laptop

if its kde you can just right click on the taskbar, edit and then type in the desired width.

cheers but I still cant find any AMD GPU laptops with these brands.

The one I am after is sold out unfortunately

thanks for the recommendations guys, but I cant seem to find any AMD GPU laptops anywhere other than framework - they are rarer than rocking horse shit.

In regards to your last point, this is something I always overlooked and couldnt understand why my laptop was severely underperforming (thermal throttling)

Ive never seen a distro utilise any form of fan control that works with my hardware, but utilising NBFC and its GUI has completely fixed the issues that have been plaguing me for the past few years.

Zorin OS

https://wiki.pika-os.com/en/home

this should tick all your boxes.