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Not really. Most recommend Framework because their laptops are open to the point where third parties can make random peripherals that fit the expansion ports. They have a page to help with choosing a distro for their hardware as well. It’s great to see this level of open-ness and repairability in a laptop. Naturally, Linux users gravitate to such a brand.

System76 leverage their own distro, Pop!_OS as a selling point for their laptops, as they have some degree of control over the hardware and software.

The other maker I’d recommend is Tuxedo Computers who also maintain their own distro for hardware they sell.

I’m running full AMD on a desktop, I don’t foresee any problems here. Hopefully your advice helps someone though!

Makes sense to me. I’m a Pop! user since 22.04 and the wait is painful, although the blog posts definitely help a bit. Currently I have no problems but if something breaks I’ll try out Nobara I guess. My /home is already partitioned so I can make that hop with minimal loss.

Oh that’s just a fruit salesman. I hear he has a good deal on pears.

I miss Vista. There’s nothing out there that replicates that feeling of booting it for the first time. Especially after years of XP… I got lucky though, I didn’t get on board until after SP1 had released so it wasn’t too bad and my laptop was above recommended spec for Home Premium.

Looking at SteamDB, it looks like it checks VC2015 is installed. So you’ll want to check if your bottle has at least one of: vcrun2015, vcrun2017, vcrun2019 or vcrun2022. It’s pretty likely that’s a required dependancy.

It also installs “DirectX Jun 2010 Redist” which installs or updates a bunch of libraries, I think most if not all of these can be installed to your bottle too. I don’t know which are required but it’s a place to start.