This is honestly the only reason Linux is not my only OS. I have a laptop with an integrated and dedicated nvidia rtx3060 gpu, and Linux has trouble with the Nvidia drivers and I get stuttering in almost all games and 3d applications.

I went into a discord specialised in lenovo Legion on linux, and even they couldn’t help me, though they were very helpful. My requirements aren’t even insane, I just want to slice files for my 3d printer without issues and play a 2d browser game from time to time.

I’m still debugging it, it mug have to do with the power management firmware. But this is not ready for the mainstream consumer if its necessary to go this deep.

I tried Fedora but since they removed support of x11 and nvidia doesn’t get along with wayland, I’m out of luck.

Was it hard to set it to always use the dedicated gpu?

Dual booting PopOS seems pretty rough though, with risks to the windows installation and bootloader

Oh, that’s good to know. So I can just install x11 on my Fedora no problem whatsoever?

Only shame is that they don’t recommend dual hooting with windows, which is a requirement for me

Thanks! I’m downloading nobara now, any tips to get it to work as expected?

I’ve done some more digging and indeed, the AMD integrated GPU is being used. Optimus seems like a good option, but then apparently I’d have to use x11 as the desktop renderer because Wayland doesn’t play nice with nvidia.

As far as I can see, x11 will be deprecated not too long from now?

Thanks for your answer! I had 535 installed on Debian 12 and 570 on Fedora 42. This is the result of fastfetch (neofetch is EOL). Let me know if you need any more info or if you think you have something that might help. Thanks!

System Details:

• OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)

• Host: Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ACH (82JQ)

• Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64

• Uptime: 30 mins

• Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

Hardware:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 4.46 GHz

• GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

• GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Series

• Memory: 4.30 GiB / 27.25 GiB (16%)

• Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

• Disk (/): 23.09 GiB / 243.14 GiB (9%)

• Display: 2560x1600 @ 60 Hz

• Battery: 60% [AC Connected]

Software Environment:

• DE: GNOME 48.1

• WM: Mutter (Wayland)

• Theme: Adwaita

• Packages: 2490 (rpm), 12 (flatpak)

• Shell: bash 5.2.37

• Terminal: Ptyxis 48.1

• Network: 192.168.2.14/24 (wlp4s0)

Interesting, thanks! Do you happen to have a link to it?

It seems indeed the nvidia drivers disable wayland. I played around in Firefox settings a bit more and a setting around input delay seems to have fixed it for now. I hope it stays that way. If not, I’ll migrate to chromium

Smooth as butter on a chromium browser, which is nice but also annoying haha

It’s x11, when I check my desktop environments I only have gnome and gnome classic

I checked in about:support and Firefox is using x11, so maybe wayland isn’t installed

I don’t have experience with wayland yet, so I’ll need to check if it’s available on my installation. Do you now how I can run Firefox in wayland?

The drivers are the latest officially supported Debian ones, they should not be the main issue here. But I can give it a look, thanks!

I installed MX Linux on my 32bit system with low specs and it runs fine

I’m thinking of making Linux my daily driver apart for some software I need for work. People are super positive about it on here, but isn’t it still the case that some peripherals won’t work? Or that I’ll spend a ton of time making the system work instead of actually using the system?

It would be for gaming that I’d use the Linux installation mostly.

I would also like to cliticize someone

That movie was a train wreck, I also gave up after that one

This was just two weeks ago, and it’s a relatively old device, from 2014. It’s proprietary bullhonky all over that device unfortunately, from the screen brightness to the webcam to the bloody power button.