Hi everyone,
I am evaluating Fedora Workstation as a replacement for Windows 11 on a newly purchased ASUS TUF Gaming A16 laptop.
Hardware summary:
- ASUS TUF Gaming A16 (FA608UP-RV019W)
- AMD Ryzen 7 260 (8 cores / 16 threads)
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (8 GB GDDR7)
- 32 GB DDR5-5600
- 1 TB NVMe Gen4 SSD
- Wi-Fi 6E
- USB4
My goal is to build a stable, reliable, low-maintenance development workstation that works as close to out-of-the-box as possible. I have some Linux experience, but I am specifically trying to avoid spending significant time troubleshooting hardware, drivers, suspend/resume issues, or platform-specific workarounds.
The system would be used primarily for:
- Software development
- Docker and containers
- VS Code and Cursor
- Brave and Firefox
- Discord
- Obsidian
- MEGA
- Proton VPN
- Local AI workloads
- CUDA
- Ollama and similar LLM runtimes
Some questions I have:
- How well is this hardware expected to work with current Fedora Workstation releases?
- Are there any known issues with the RTX 5070 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA drivers, hybrid graphics, or Secure Boot?
- How reliable are suspend/resume, battery life, and power management on recent ASUS TUF laptops?
- Are battery charge limits and battery health controls available under Fedora?
- Do ASUS-specific features such as performance profiles, keyboard controls, and thermal management work properly?
- Is Fedora a good choice for CUDA, local AI tooling, and GPU-accelerated workloads on this hardware?
- Would you consider this platform suitable for a stable daily-driver Fedora installation today, or would you recommend waiting for additional kernel, firmware, or driver maturity?
My primary concern is reliability and ease of maintenance. I am less interested in extensive customization and more interested in having a system that works well with minimal intervention over the long term.
If anyone is running a similar ASUS TUF, Ryzen AI, or RTX 50-series laptop with Fedora, I would appreciate hearing about your experience.
I can provide the full hardware specifications and additional system details if needed.