Hi all,

I’m traveling for a few months so I picked up a used gaming laptop from one of those trading sites. It’s an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 2024.

I initially went with Windows because I wanted to game. I was gonna miss my terminal for dev and a bunch of other things but I thought compatibility and not dealing with hassle was more important for now. The thing is, for some reason, the laptop would be running really hot all the time … even when idling.

I got fed up and I put Pop OS! loaded steam with the compatibility stuff and ran a few games really well. My only issue so far was that the laptop keyboard didn’t work during installation but after an update it was fine. The laptop obviously gets hot when running games but when idling it runs really cool.

This is now making me feel like I can convert my gaming desktop over as well!

I was considering Bazzite too? Anyone know if it’s worth it?

  • sixdripb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    asus-linux.org community specifically recommends against installing anything debian based (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) because they use older packages/drivers that won’t have required support for many ROG laptops especially new ones. their site and discord advice running either fedora or arch if you want the current best support. they also have tools to control hardware things like mux switch and rgb lighting and stuff.