Hi all,

I’m traveling for a few months so I picked up a used gaming laptop from one of those trading sites. It’s an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 2024.

I initially went with Windows because I wanted to game. I was gonna miss my terminal for dev and a bunch of other things but I thought compatibility and not dealing with hassle was more important for now. The thing is, for some reason, the laptop would be running really hot all the time … even when idling.

I got fed up and I put Pop OS! loaded steam with the compatibility stuff and ran a few games really well. My only issue so far was that the laptop keyboard didn’t work during installation but after an update it was fine. The laptop obviously gets hot when running games but when idling it runs really cool.

This is now making me feel like I can convert my gaming desktop over as well!

I was considering Bazzite too? Anyone know if it’s worth it?

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Bazzite works pretty well on ASUS laptops, just be sure you select the ISO for ASUS so you get the ROG control software to manage stuff like your fan curves.

    • lobut@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Thanks to this one comment alone I stayed up a few hours last night to switch to Bazzite.

      I had a few oddities with Pop OS and I wanted to turn off the fans and do stuff. The fact that Bazzite had it all rolled in is impressive. The keyboard worked immediately. I don’t think I read the instructions well enough but I figured out I was supposed to use bazzite as the pw to get in.

      This is what I think I was looking for, at least from what I see so far!

      Thanks so much!