I have no full background on this but I think it’s performance VS price.
With performance I don’t mean only fps but also abilities.
For example, I don’t need to rent a dedicated server to host a minecraft or gta rp server and play on that server with all my friends.
Another reason could be mods. I can imagine Linux has more to offer than windows in the future comparing the abilities. You have basically full power over everything since you are the server.
Plus of course future development on a hot topic. VR for example is dead to me since almost five years. Many mobile VR devices run on android since they have ARM support only. Could give a glimpse in the future for VR gaming. At the end it’s opportunities to try and fail or success. You can’t do it all in the lab with a team. Sometimes it needs a greater community to achieve success. We will see what it brings.
My point is more that it’s very easy to install Linux on a windows laptop, (all in all 20 minutes if you include setting up the flash drive). You would get better specs for the money that way and likely a sleeker design.
Of course you can install Linux on most typical gaming laptops and it will work fine for the most part.
But it cannot be taken for granted, that everything can be controlled. Be it the fan control, FN keys, RGB stripes/keys, screen brightness et cetera.
We reverse-engineer drivers and firmware to make sure, that a laptop is ~100% Linux compatible, that is the USP.
Also, we offer Linux telephone / mail support, which is especially important for newbies and B2B customers. There are only a handful of Linux laptop vendors in the entire world that target both John Doe and B2B equally.
If something breaks, nobody needs to crawl between forums, subreddits and figure out stuff completely on their own. We take care of it, so the customer doesn’t have to as much.
Cloud Storage and customization options (engravings) are the icing on the top.
We will probably never be able to compete with other brands in terms of the raw price+performance ratio - Black Friday doesn’t exist for us.
You may find it cheaper initially, but if something breaks, costs for RMA or service in general can be higher. And in these cases, you might reach a break-even point.
And having that security net is often worth the surcharge for many customers.
Having linux phone support is huge, I wouldn’t have thought that would be offered. I don’t think you can even get windows phone support from most manufacturers. That is a good point with hardware support, I have mostly used thinkpads which are known to have good linux support and even then there can be weird annoying issues. I could imagine there’s more that could go wrong with a random asus/lenovo gaming laptop.
I’d imagine it’s also nice to be able to see a review and know things like real world battery life beforehand, instead of just taking a gamble and not knowing how X windows laptop will perform. Thanks for taking the time to reply!
Not trying to be negative here but what is the appeal of buying a special “Linux laptop” as opposed to buying any windows laptop and installing Linux?
I have no full background on this but I think it’s performance VS price. With performance I don’t mean only fps but also abilities.
For example, I don’t need to rent a dedicated server to host a minecraft or gta rp server and play on that server with all my friends.
Another reason could be mods. I can imagine Linux has more to offer than windows in the future comparing the abilities. You have basically full power over everything since you are the server.
Plus of course future development on a hot topic. VR for example is dead to me since almost five years. Many mobile VR devices run on android since they have ARM support only. Could give a glimpse in the future for VR gaming. At the end it’s opportunities to try and fail or success. You can’t do it all in the lab with a team. Sometimes it needs a greater community to achieve success. We will see what it brings.
My point is more that it’s very easy to install Linux on a windows laptop, (all in all 20 minutes if you include setting up the flash drive). You would get better specs for the money that way and likely a sleeker design.
And this was my point: I highly doubt you can get a laptop with up to 96gb of ram at that price level. Feel free to prove me wrong.
It comes with 16gb of ram at that price, it can be configured with up to 96gb of ram.
Exactly what I wrote. And again: Feel free to provide me any gaming laptop with that ability at that price level.
The appeal also lies in the hardware support.
Of course you can install Linux on most typical gaming laptops and it will work fine for the most part.
But it cannot be taken for granted, that everything can be controlled. Be it the fan control, FN keys, RGB stripes/keys, screen brightness et cetera.
We reverse-engineer drivers and firmware to make sure, that a laptop is ~100% Linux compatible, that is the USP.
Also, we offer Linux telephone / mail support, which is especially important for newbies and B2B customers. There are only a handful of Linux laptop vendors in the entire world that target both John Doe and B2B equally.
If something breaks, nobody needs to crawl between forums, subreddits and figure out stuff completely on their own. We take care of it, so the customer doesn’t have to as much.
Cloud Storage and customization options (engravings) are the icing on the top.
We will probably never be able to compete with other brands in terms of the raw price+performance ratio - Black Friday doesn’t exist for us.
You may find it cheaper initially, but if something breaks, costs for RMA or service in general can be higher. And in these cases, you might reach a break-even point.
And having that security net is often worth the surcharge for many customers.
Having linux phone support is huge, I wouldn’t have thought that would be offered. I don’t think you can even get windows phone support from most manufacturers. That is a good point with hardware support, I have mostly used thinkpads which are known to have good linux support and even then there can be weird annoying issues. I could imagine there’s more that could go wrong with a random asus/lenovo gaming laptop.
I’d imagine it’s also nice to be able to see a review and know things like real world battery life beforehand, instead of just taking a gamble and not knowing how X windows laptop will perform. Thanks for taking the time to reply!