Title. I remember having a laptop with an intel iGPU and NVidia dGPU back in the day, and trying to use Linux on it was – Yeah not really a thing. It meant spending a whole day trying to configure the driver, then you could do optirun command, but depending on the application, it didn’t matter how hard you tried or how good you smelled, that shit just wouldn’t work.
It’s been a long long time. Gaming on Linux has gotten better and better, but I’ve been using AMD stuff exclusively since ~2018
Still, getting a laptop with an AMD dGPU is… Does anyone other than Framework even make them? Either way I tried and couldn’t find any to buy in my country at all.
So I’m eyeing a laptop with an NVidia GPU and an Intel processor. … But it worries me that I would buy it and find Linux doesn’t work on it. I categorically refuse to use Windows on a personal machine ever again, so I’ll just do without if NVidia+Linux is still as fuckt as it was back in the day.
In my current machines I use CachyOS, but yeah.
Good question. I’m afraid I don’t have an answer to it. I got laptops without Nvidia stuff after that. But I still remember not upgrading to the latest kernel because of the proprietary drivers. The free ones used a lot of battery and it took years to get acceptable performance out of them… I had to read about optimus, bumblebee, screen tearing… Also got the laptop to just come up with a black screen once or twice after a bigger update… I heard it got better after that. But no clue if that’s really the case.