u/Szhadji

Yesterday I saw a person with a similiar laptop than mine, so this may be a duplicate post. If so, then I apologise. I have an ASUS TUF A15, specs are below. I have been using Linux on and off for about 2 years, but I didn't had the best experience to say the least. The main things that I do are pretty general use with "heavy" gaming and audio recording (guitar) on the side. (I would most certainly dual-boot for the audio production and school stuff too.)

I tend to play a variety of games: Mostly single-player, but I play many multiplayer games, some rarely, the main online games that I play are: Deadlock, Marvel Rivals, Fortnite, Hearthstone. I know that Fortnite will never work with Linux because of anti-cheat, so I would use that with the dual boot too. Honestly I would be happy if single-player games would run with a smooth, consistent framerate, and I would just play the online games on Windows.

I tried a few distros like CachyOS, Mint and Fedora. I would happily go back to Mint if KDE or GNOME would work on it, never tried to install them. Fedora was just inconsistent with performance but maybe it was on my part, so I wouldn't rule out Fedora. Then I switched to Cachy, and to be honest, I don't really see the appeal. I had about the same performance as on any other distro.

By tinkering I mean finding solutions to problems. I don't have an issue with installing the necessary apps. And I don't really care about optimisations, I just want a smooth experience with the least hassle. Mint is out of the picture, because I didn't like any of the DEs they provide. Unless you can install KDE or GNOME on it. But maybe I would just use Kubuntu or stock Ubuntu than, but I was told to forget about them because of Canonical and Snaps.

My specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 7535HS
GPU: RTX 4050
RAM: 16 GB DDR5
The iGPU was disable in bios, because a wanted to rule out hybrid gpu issues, but didn't help much.

Every Linux user says that Windows is bloated and Windows sucks. Windows breaks all the time, etc. Ok, then why in my 20 years of using Windows since XP, it broke about 3 times where it was not my fault. I have been using Linux besides Windows for about 2 years, and things just don't work. Especially with gaming. Worse performance, some games not even launching, some games I can't even play (but this is more the devteam/publisher's fault). What is the appeal for people to use Linux, if you can solve Windows's "problems" when you install it in about 30 minutes. With Linux you have troubleshoot EVERYTHING, I swear to god.

EDIT: I would like to tone down a little bit because I may have found the issue. So on windows, when I start a game windows disables my igpu and the internal monitor is connected directly to my dGPU. I managed to get it working on linux too, so that my dGPU is connected directly, and it may have solved the problem. I will try it out furthermore.