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Is Linux on a laptop with an Intel Processor + an NVidia GPU still the absolute fucking nightmare it was 10 years ago? (pawb.social)
submitted 2 days ago by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] lord_of_shrimps@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

It was a right pain in the ass to make Arch work with my setup (GTX 1650 ti as dGPU) as only the dGPU has HDMI for an external monitor connected to it. I vaguely remember fiddling with reverse PRIME and then generating xorg conf file using nvidia's tools. (Yeah, still using X11)