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Old 07-31-2015, 12:00 AM   #1
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Smile MSI - GS70 Stealth


Tried the free Windows 10. Fucking hated it! I skipped out on Win 8 and 8.1 because I hated the way OS looked and operated, it reminds me of a phone that I can't do anything with, mind you though, if I had a touch screen maybe I would have thought different.

At any rate, I hate Windows 10 so I'm thinking about switching again, especially now that Games are finally coming to Linux via Steam.

I think it's a pipe dream to setup Linux on the current laptop I have MSI-GS70 Stealth the GTX765m Version. The windows drivers and the Geforce Experience driver barely work properly in Windows so I'm doubtful it will be any better or even on par with Linux. The main issue I see is that this thing has dual GPUs in it. The intel onboard, and the nvidia one. Some fancy driver thing detects when I'm going into a game and turns on the nvidia gpu.

Do you guys think there is any chance that I can make this work? Cause honestly I'm not even going to try unless there is something positive reinforcement here lol. No pressure, but be honest!
 
Old 07-31-2015, 01:26 AM   #2
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Chipset: no problem
CPU: no problem
Graphics: precompiled or via www.nvidia.com
 
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Old 07-31-2015, 08:25 AM   #3
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a 2-year old MSI laptop?
i honestly don't see any problems there.
getting the proprietary nvidia gpu drivers requires a few extra steps (necessary for gaming) - but nothing outlandish.
 
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Old 07-31-2015, 03:33 PM   #4
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Awesome. I was thinking about going Debian as SteamOS seems a bit clunky for anything other than gaming on your TV.

Do you guys have any other suggestions?
 
Old 08-01-2015, 01:09 AM   #5
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If you want to use a Debian based system, you should better use a Ubuntu based distro.
I think Steam is available for this system.
 
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Old 08-01-2015, 01:54 AM   #6
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If you want to use a Debian based system, you should better use a Ubuntu based distro.
I think Steam is available for this system.
Why do you say that? Wouldn't Debian be faster?
 
Old 08-01-2015, 03:11 AM   #7
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Dual graphics on laptop, you'll most like;y have to use Bumblebee.
http://bumblebee-project.org/
 
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The only issue with Debian Stable is that things will get old and stay old. If it works, then it's fine but if you need a newer graphics driver or kernel then you'll be messing with backports and the like to get things working. Ubuntu, being based upon Testing, is a bit more modern.
Debian won't be any faster (or slower) than Ubuntu if you use the same desktop environment and programs. The problem with Ubuntu, if you're of that mindset, is Unity being resource hungry and annoying -- if you like it then that won't matter to you and if you don't you can always install Xubuntu, Kubuntu or some other version or just install another desktop environment.
Personally, though, I would suggest looking at Linux Mint or Linux Mint Debian Edition (which is a rolling distribution) as Mint is likely to include drivers and non-free software to make things easier and the desktop environments provided are less jarring than Ubuntu's Unity.
Regarding the graphics, you'll need to do something like this:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1687
 
  


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