Best distro for MSI laptops?

I assume that you've searched the interwebs for msi gt80 linux. If so, you might have seen that you have a challenge on your hands:

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=270668.0

https://community.linuxmint.com/hardware/view/23815

I suggest that (i) You search for the term above and see if anyone has been successful in installing any distro on this machine. (ii) You give preference to recent kernels which are more likely to support your hardware.

Yeah, I some some of that. I reconfigured the machine in a serious way, removed RAID0 it came with, added 2 SSDs.. Like I said, Fedora was a fine install except I didn't care for the windows manager and it was missing sound. I want something plug in play. I am sure it exists.

Originally Posted by etcetera Yeah, I some some of that. I reconfigured the machine in a serious way, removed RAID0 it came with, added 2 SSDs.. Like I said, Fedora was a fine install except I didn't care for the windows manager and it was missing sound. I want something plug in play. I am sure it exists.

Fedora comes in various "spins" (https://spins.fedoraproject.org/), not just with the Gnome desktop environment. You often get variations in the capabilities of distro spins/flavours too, so you might find e.g. that audio works with Fedora KDE. Well worth downloading one or two spins and trying them out.

Originally Posted by hydrurga Fedora comes in various "spins" (https://spins.fedoraproject.org/), not just with the Gnome desktop environment. You often get variations in the capabilities of distro spins/flavours too, so you might find e.g. that audio works with Fedora KDE. Well worth downloading one or two spins and trying them out.

This looks very cool.
and Fedora comes with the LVM which is nice.

Originally Posted by hydrurga Fedora comes in various "spins" (https://spins.fedoraproject.org/), not just with the Gnome desktop environment. You often get variations in the capabilities of distro spins/flavours too, so you might find e.g. that audio works with Fedora KDE. Well worth downloading one or two spins and trying them out.

lol Beat me to it, I was going to say Fedora Spins.
To the OP I have no idea if it will work but if you like KDE you could give Open SUSE a try.

Maybe give MX Linux a try, run it 'live' to check everything works OK, (or for a lighter system, try AntiX).