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Nvidia Optimus - OpenSUSE or EndeavourOS (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by TheKarion@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've had very good experiences with both but wanted to give debian a try, after accepting that it's nvidia drivers and Optimus support suck, I need to decide whether to use EndeavourOS or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not using base arch because I don't want to go through the install hassle.

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[–] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tested both and ended up with EndeavourOS because SuSE have some restrictions and issues with codecs and the Packman repository that can get a bit iffy.. e.g. recently different versions of mesa on suse vs. packman messed up some applications, though it got fixed.

Also for some reason SuSE didn't support my vol up/down keys, etc. I didn't investigate.

So I grabbed EndeavourOS, choose [NVidia] proprietary drivers mode when booting the installer (the install will then automatically also install NV proprietary drivers). I picked the BTRFS filesystem with Grub (for snapshot support) at install and simply later ran "yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant" to get automatic snapshot support.

I do have Optimus disabled though, I run the Nvidia in Dedicated mode so I can't say how well Optimus works.

[–] the_postminimalist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Just wanted to pitch in my experience and say my volume up/down keys on my keyboard worked out of the box, so it's not a universal issue, and still worth giving OpenSUSE a try.

I do use NVidia with OpenSUSE, but I don't use Optimus, so I can't be of much help.