• dom@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Windows gets worse. Linux gets better.

    Got a new gaming laptop and have been considering flipping it to popOS. Only thing holding me back is the OLED support that I’ve heard may not work

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      I wouldn’t recommend Pop!_OS at the moment. They just added their new desktop environment (COSMIC) and there’s a lot of bugs.

      Also, if you’re wanting to play newer games that need driver updates you may have to wait due to the slow update cycle of distros based on Debian/Ubuntu

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      13 hours ago

      I don’t know much about OLED laptops but OLED monitors do their maintenance entirely in firmware, no OS support is necessary.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t know how to explicitly check if hardware is supported, but if you pop a live USB in and it works, then I imagine it works on the fully installed os as well

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        23 hours ago

        Yeah this is a good call. I’ll give this a go. Had pop os on my old laptop and it was great. But that didn’t have a dedicated GPU or nice screen so I wasn’t concerned