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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 4 days ago by 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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[–] 4 points 4 days ago

It still has its problems but is loads better than what it used to be, less issues with swapping the GPU for intensive applications

Have an i7+4060 laptop, main issue I faced was the thermal throttling because these components get hot fast. NVIDIAs poor drivers really limit your ability to underclock and Intels load line calibration was all over the place for the cpu series.

Make sure you can get the fan controllers working properly, I had to implement the EC firmware for my laptop to get it running properly - something worth checking before buying

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