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Ha I wonder about that. How many laptops have you bought, over what timespan?

What versions/variations of Linux have you run?

What are your use cases?

I put Linux Mint (Cinnamon) on a Lenovo Legion 5. It's really pretty good, but has glitches. With Cinnamon (X11 + GNOME) there's weird issues with fractional scaling. (1080p laptop; I have bad eyesight and prefer 125%.) Added KDE Plasma 5 which fixed the scaling issue, but I lost the ability to control brightness from the laptop buttons.

So I'm 0 for 1 on "any laptop" and "no glitches" :)



Fedora. Last 6 laptops. Since 2016.

Started with Lenovo. Second one was MSI. And now have moved to cheaper ones as Linux, at least Fedora, runs on anything I buy.


Do you run Steam?

Do you utilize fractional scaling?

My only known issue with Linux Mint (GNOME) was fractional scaling issues, which mostly affected Steam / games.

"Runs on" is a bit low of a bar! But I'm glad you don't run into any glitches.

Thanks for responding!




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