@teto @Kagekokoro it's not a "laptop" technically but it does use laptop hardware so it kind of is. it's one of the very original steam machines, before steam os even came out. really tiny box with about the same performance as a ps4. i played rise of the tomb raider on it in 720p at 30fps back in the day lol. it could run it at like 40fps technically but i locked it down. it was also fine at 900p30 but my monitor was basically a small, shitty TV and didn't fully support 900p so it looked like ass.

anyway, it has an "860m" in it but it's got something weird and custom going on with it, like it technically supports the same drivers but there's something different going on there. can't remember what, exactly.

i saw some people talking about how it doesn't technically support all of vulkan's feature set for 1.3, so there are some things that just won't work on it (or won't work well) if they aren't using directx, which is obviously a problem for linux gaming.

saw some people getting mixed results running anything on bazzite, decent results with some games on other distros but bad results on others. for the most part, it seems like it's the perfect in-between system where it's just new enough to barely be supported but old enough where it isn't really worth trying.

i just stuck windows 11 on there instead, we'll see how that goes. if i have problems with it i'll probably just downgrade back to windows 10 and find a way to turn off the nags.