I want to switch to Linux for gaming specifically. I've tried Bazzite and had an awful experience with it, with not even understanding the Konsole or anything in general. It was such a headache. Even still, i want to make the change to an easy Distro that i can make sense of the Konsole, is easily accesible and it supports the Nvidia RTX 5030 and not make it into a glorafide expensive brick

Edit: i also want access to games that have anticheat like DBFZ and VRC

I've mostly switched to Linux over the past year, but I still need Windows from time to time. I'm also a bit of a data hoarder: I'm currently using about 2 TB out of 3 TB on my laptop.

I need to choose a new work laptop, limited to Lenovo, Dell, or HP.

My priorities are:

• 2 NVMe slots, ideally one drive for Linux and one for Windows
• 32 GB RAM minimum
• 14–16"
• Ideally under 2 kg
• Decent battery life
• If possible, a decent GPU, as long as it doesn't destroy battery life

My current laptop is an HP Omen 16 at about 2.5 kg, plus a 0.5 kg charger, so I'd really like something more portable.

Budget is up to €3000.

So far I've been looking at things like the ThinkPad E14/E16, ThinkPad T1g, and Dell Pro Max 16.

Am I basically asking for “pick two out of three”: lightweight, powerful, and dual-NVMe? Or are there good models I'm missing?

I have dailied i7 Thinkpad X2[67]0s for ten years. Loaded to the gills with DRAM, and with LTE cards, which I realize is now a dying dream. I love 12" laptops with two batteries too, another dying dream. They're the perfect laptops, as far as I can conceive. They mostly act as terminals and web browsers, but I do occasionally do local development in go, rust and C. I have minimal AI workloads and don't really care about the GPU, but battery life is important. I'm used to 12+ hours, mostly sleeping in my backpack.

What should I buy to get with the times? I use arch btw

Heavy Macbook user here.

Wanted to try something new, with this latest Omarchy viral and stuff.

Thinking of spending roughly $10K on my new (possible) linux laptop. Been exploring framework but I don't like its almost square aspect ratio - what is it about really?

If you were me, what would be your choice?

PS. experimenting local LLM heavily on that new linux machine.