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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 1 month 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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[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have been using NVIDIA under Linux since 2005, then in 2025 I switched to AMD. I have lots more problems with the Radeon, like the driver just crashing, taking the whole X server and all applications with it. That never happened with NVIDIA.

Gaming on a laptop is a path that will lead to failure eventually; get a desktop computer.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Already got one.

The laptop is for when I'm travelling.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Defeatist mindset

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

More like realistic mindset based on the "been there" factor.