These days I was wondering what laptop GPU would be the easiest to maintain / simplest to configure from a laptop POV?

Considering NixOS (I see Nix as gentoo++) or arch.

Onboard Intel/amd? “Discrete” Intel/amd/nvidia?

Would prefer open source but am not Uber passionate (results > means).

Fictional use case is mid tier game development - ray tracing is nice but stability and minimal effort to keep stable while pushing decent amounts shader/polygons is more important vs peak perf/px. No bitbro / artificial guess.

Experiences & recommendos?

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I second this, my all AMD Lenovo ThinkPad is the stablest machine I’ve ever had, even when I’m cooking it by playing some more demanding Steam titles.

    I went with a laptop for the flexibility, sometimes I game, sometimes I just want to take my system with me.

    In your case, go for a workstation instead.