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Asking for Laptop Recommendation – Offline GPU (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by Werewolf@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I want to buy a laptop for a few purposes, not my main laptop:

Use it to run !localllama@sh.itjust.works stuff and Stable Diffusion.
Use it for games downloaded from repack sites. So for these two, it would need a decent GPU.
I would like to pull out the WiFi card. I have offline computers and online computers. No need for this to use the internet.
I would probably dual-boot Windows and Linux, or else have it boot Windows and use a live USB when I want Linux

Thank you all.

Money is no object.

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[–] ghotigoat@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AMD GPUs are much less of a hassle on Linux, though - looks like Nvidia are moving towards open sourcing their drivers soon which may make this less of an issue for op

[–] simple@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've had zero issues with nvidia on Linux lately. It works flawlessly on newer drivers, even on wayland.

[–] ghotigoat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Sweet, good to know! Always glad to see FOSS working better

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same. Probably about a month ago there was an Nvidia driver and I think Wayland update that took it from unusable on Wayland to quite stable.