This was immediately after a boot... I'm sure it was checking for updates (i say that with certainty because of the network activity shown in the bottom left of my desktop). She is a rather fast machine, with any os... but especially fast with zorin 16. Things tend to explode to life, with a flurry of activity in the resource monitor, then idle again.
It is a 32gb ram system, wish i could have gotten more, but for a gaming and development rig it works.
I went with the tuf a17 because it's a 17" laptop, 15 won't do anymore, and the ryzen 7 cpu. 8 core, 16 threads will get just about anything started...crysis 3 is gorgeous in it, though I'm not sure exactly what i was running at. 1080p 120hz i believe. Warframe looks great to... put my ps5 to shame, though that doesn't look too bad at 60hz... not quite the same experience though.
I chose to fork out the extra for matching nvme drives at 1tb a piece, and a 90Wh battery, which takes up the available third sata drive slot. I'm not sure it's pcie4, but even with 3 it still isn't going to bottleneck when communicating with the nvme's. I wanted the 980, but it still is too expensive and without certainty of pcie4, a wasted effort.
The 1660 fairs well enough for my purposes. I'm not into video like you are and don't need that kind of power. Besides, 4k and 8k are not easily distinguishable by the human eye, especially mine. Above 1080p it all looks very similar to me, maybe slightly sharper.
Alpha had a mix of the 5.4 and 5.8 kernel... though most of the 5.4 has been removed now, if not all. Most of the keyboard shortcuts work, all the hardware is recognized and usable. The fan is only controllable by the mb so windows has access but not Linux.
I'm not to concerned with the temperatures because it was also a warm afternoon, but i haven't seen them above 70c and above 95c is red line. I take the thing everywhere i can, but have a nice laptop cooler at the house. Without it the tuf does pretty well, it is a military grade case.
It may not be your msi, but the tuf would give her a run for her money.
- I can double-click and launch that .deb installer from the GUI (great), and when I did that the first time on Zorin 16 (beta) it recognized I hadn't installed it before and had an INSTALL button, which I pushed, and it installed flawlessly (also great - added to menus, found in Super-key search, all that). However, with the incremental updates that I can download, either initiated from within the app (Wappler) or by double-clicking the update package file I download myself, the only thing Zorin wants to do is REMOVE the software. Here's a screen: