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I create this topic so i can show people Pop! OS 22.04 a Linux operating system based on Ubuntu is working perfectly fine on this unit. I did not encounter 1 single issue with it and i am very happy with the result i have. I achieved such a great performance, lower temperatures and perfect fps in games (if not better). Pop! OS 24.04 is in development, i am waiting for that release because the developers are creating their own desktop environment written in rust (cosmic). If that release is coming out, i wipe all my drives and will fully convert to linux.
History with linux: I started to experiment with linux 10 years ago because i hated windows 8/8.1 and the telemetry in Windows 10 (and now 11). Back in that day my Clevo unit probably hated linux and froze alot. So i had to switch back to windows. In 2021 i wanted to try it again on a different machine Acer Predator G9-793-71SJ and it did not fail me. I used Pop! OS for 1 and half year. Till i bought this unit and i heard MSI did not have good compatibility for linux. That was the only reason why i did not use linux anymore. Till i read a month or 4 ago MSI stuff got added in the kernel and alot of machines where supported. Since then i got strongly the feeling to test Pop! OS again. 2 Weeks ago i wiped my external drive and did a test....thank god i did this...everything worked fine out of the box. No drivers needed at all.
My system: as you can see below i have 8TB installed (2x 4TB Samsung 990 Pro). I also upgraded the memory last year to 64GB (Samsung Modules)
My first video i shared on the forum: In the video you can see all the fn keys are just working out of the box.
I also managed to get steam to work, epic games, ea app and the gog store. I made a video of that as well, games are running so great. I don't even notice that i game on linux. However i do notice the power key is white alot duo the change between iGPU and dGPU. In Windows my button was always orange so this is pretty new to me how much it changes from white to orange lol. I also notice the temps are much lower on linux.
nvme-pci-0200: Main Windows drive (normally around 32-37c idle in windows)
nvme-pci-0300: Gaming drive (normally around 35-45c idle in windows)
coretemp-isa-0000: This is the cpu, i am pretty sure this one is alot higher on Windows as i was shocked how low it was now.
iwlwifi_1-virtual-0: Wifi card temp
acpitz-acpi-0: This one is unknown to me
The temps idle for the nvidia card are also lower, windows always kept it in use so this didn't surprise me much.
On the picture below you will see the clock speed idle.
History with linux: I started to experiment with linux 10 years ago because i hated windows 8/8.1 and the telemetry in Windows 10 (and now 11). Back in that day my Clevo unit probably hated linux and froze alot. So i had to switch back to windows. In 2021 i wanted to try it again on a different machine Acer Predator G9-793-71SJ and it did not fail me. I used Pop! OS for 1 and half year. Till i bought this unit and i heard MSI did not have good compatibility for linux. That was the only reason why i did not use linux anymore. Till i read a month or 4 ago MSI stuff got added in the kernel and alot of machines where supported. Since then i got strongly the feeling to test Pop! OS again. 2 Weeks ago i wiped my external drive and did a test....thank god i did this...everything worked fine out of the box. No drivers needed at all.
My system: as you can see below i have 8TB installed (2x 4TB Samsung 990 Pro). I also upgraded the memory last year to 64GB (Samsung Modules)
My first video i shared on the forum: In the video you can see all the fn keys are just working out of the box.
I also managed to get steam to work, epic games, ea app and the gog store. I made a video of that as well, games are running so great. I don't even notice that i game on linux. However i do notice the power key is white alot duo the change between iGPU and dGPU. In Windows my button was always orange so this is pretty new to me how much it changes from white to orange lol. I also notice the temps are much lower on linux.
nvme-pci-0200: Main Windows drive (normally around 32-37c idle in windows)
nvme-pci-0300: Gaming drive (normally around 35-45c idle in windows)
coretemp-isa-0000: This is the cpu, i am pretty sure this one is alot higher on Windows as i was shocked how low it was now.
iwlwifi_1-virtual-0: Wifi card temp
acpitz-acpi-0: This one is unknown to me
The temps idle for the nvidia card are also lower, windows always kept it in use so this didn't surprise me much.
On the picture below you will see the clock speed idle.
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. Settings are set at high, dlss turned off otherwise its playing like it did in Windows 
