[SheinhardtWigCo]

Looks like a good spec for the price. You won't have a problem with Ryzen on Linux, but with a dGPU, it's often necessary to use an ACPI hack to keep the dGPU fully powered off, or it'll hurt battery life for no benefit.

Inexpensive gaming laptops are always a significant compromise in some way. If you mostly use it for development and only use it for gaming occasionally, you might end up feeling like the compromise wasn't worth it. It depends how much gaming you want to do and whether you could do it elsewhere, like a console or PC.

There's a good subreddit for this kind of question: https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop

[amitheonlyone]

I have used a Lenovo laptop with PoP OS, which had a dedicated NVIDIA card. I don't game too heavy, just some small platformers and occassionally CSGO. And with a 512 GB SSD, I might also need to expand the storage if I plan to game more I guess