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For laptops with top-end CPU and screen spec etc, they mostly have nVidia chipsets from what I have seen.

I would have slightly preferred AMD, but I wanted an i9 in a laptop that had good Linux support, and so nVidia was all I could get (XPS15).



Are there any decent high end laptops that use AMD? I haven't seen anything. Not Lenovo. Not Dell. Not system 76 or any other Linux vendors. I prefer one too considering what shit nvidia drivers are. So the Redhat/wayland people are essentially saying all powerful laptops that have a chance of running Linux are already obsolete even ones not released yet? Redhat is powerful but not powerful enough to decide that. Fuck wayland if they refuse to support virtually the entire market for pro laptops. It certainly isn't the future without that. That's just delusional.


MacBook Pro's generally use AMD I think (although Apple laptops were about 40% more expensive for an equivalent spec when I looked).

nVidia needs to choose to support Wayland, not Redhat.


Yeah that's what I suspected. Unfortunately mbpros have many other issues with Linux, if they even have drivers at all for the new ones. As far as nvidia they won't budge so Redhat going in on a technology that isn't supported by a large majority of its user base seems a failing on their part to me. Then again, I don't think they care much about desktop Linux so I can see where they are coming from focusing on server products and the minimal ui needed to occasionally run a gui rather than something one could use every day like os x or even windows. So much for the Linux desktop.




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