It is an Nvidia card. Looked for a laptop option with AMD but there wasn’t one available locally and I’m not buying a laptop I haven’t laid hands on first to make sure it isn’t a piece of crap. Honestly though for Linux to be viable that shouldn’t be something you have to think about.

I’ve used both Mint and Bazzite. Bazzite I’m attempting as a daily driver now because it has all the gaming shit baked in already and I don’t know wtf I’m doing with that so it gave me a head start. However, Freecad runs like absolute dog shit on it, as well as every other system I’ve tried it on, so I need to keep windows around for Fusion360, I also can’t figure out how to program my G602 from it even though according to the docs I found Solaar supports it. I’m almost certain my headset won’t work on it. When I did my taxes it wouldn’t open PDFs from my network share because the PDF program doesn’t understand SMB. It already lost my Secure boot key once and I had to reinstall the OS to fix that even after turning Secure Boot off. I still need to figure out the best way to run VMs on it and I have numerous other peripherals that I haven’t even tried yet because it’s honestly exhausting to keep running into problems when I’m already stressed out from work and every other fucking thing going on in my life… I was able to get my media downloading stuff all running in Mint with only one issue that took me a couple hours due to gpodder not just having a fucking setting for the download directory and the documentation couldn’t just SAY how to export the path you want but over all that was pretty painless.

I am trying Linux but it’s not going well. I still might stick with it but it’s more because of Windows getting worse than Linux being better. Right now it’s come down to an evaluation of which things I want to not be able to do anymore because Linux doesn’t support everything I currently do or the alternative is ass or will require an inordinate amount of research to get set back up.

I’m short AF and I’ve definitely heard that from women but I also dated several women who were taller than me, one of whom by almost a foot. People have preferences and that’s just how it is. If someone isn’t attracted to you there’s not a lot to be done about it but move on and try someone else. It’s usually not a judgement on you as a person, there’s just no attraction there and as much as we would all like to pretend that doesn’t matter, it usually does. I don’t date women I’m not attracted to either so it goes both ways.