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Distro Question (pawb.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an HP Victus laptop that I'm trying to get to fully work. It has two GPUs. The integrated is an AMD and the discrete is an Nvidia. For about a month I've been attempting to get Debian 12 to see and use the Nvidia card. My knowledge on anything Linux is not strong.

I got as far as getting the proprietary driver loaded. I just couldn't get anything to side load it when I launched anything.

I've stepped back a bit, and started to wonder if I'd have a better experience if I tried a different distro. I've heard some are better for multi-GPU situations like Manjaro.

So I guess I'm asking everyone if I should try jumping distros for this AMD/Nvidia situation?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have dual-GPUs and Arch seems to work fine for me. I'd try it out on a live ISO before you wipe Debian though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll give that a try this evening with a couple USB sticks. Besides the installer and that Manjaro delays the package releases, what would you say is the difference between Arch and Manjaro?

My first distro was actually LMDE on another laptop, and this time I just figured I'd try Debian this time. I know Manjaro is based on Arch like LMDE is to Debian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Manjaro is aimed more at newcomers from what I know. You're usually supposed to use GUIs instead of CLIs for a lot of thing. Personally, I don't use it (Garuda and Endeavor are my favorites), but I don't see the problem with using it.

IMO, Arch (and most Arch-likes, Manjaro being the exception) has a big focus on customization. The goal of Arch is to let you basically do whatever you want, whereas Manjaro is designe to work out of the box. As kalzEOS on r/archlinux put it:

Manjaro (and other similar distros) is like ordering a pizza from a pizza place. It comes to you all done and ready. You accept whatever they put on it and eat, or you can pick the toppings that you don't like and eat the rest. Arch is like buying the bread, the sauce, the cheese and the toppings that you want, put them all together, cook it and enjoy. The final result is the same, but the first one takes less time to fill your stomach. Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

HOW??? I've been trying off and on to get dual GPUs (AMD+Nvidia) working on Arch for coming up on a year now. nvidia-xrun turns off the internal display and I have to connect an external monitor in order to see anything, and nvx works for compute applications (works great in Blender, for example) but when I launch a game, either it runs on the IGP, or I get audio but no video. Which method do you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@AVincentInSpace @demomantf2real I'm gonna be completely honest with you, it just worked. I use dual NV on a desktop (so only external monitor)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, dual GPU on desktop is still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

@AVincentInSpace Yep. Originally I had it for virtualization but didn't have enough space for virtualization to be useful.