[FirmwareBurner]

>Nvidia Optimus is garbage and I refuse to put up with it any longer.

I heard PopOS works with Optimus out of the box, but I'm still gonna get a laptop with an AMD APU as I don't want the headaches of discrete GPUs and MUXs, plus I don't game too much anyway.

If a lot of games can run on the Steam Deck, then they can definitely run on laptops with similar or better AMD APUs, no need for discrete GPUs anymore unless you're a proper gamer, but for casual and retro gaming it should be good enough.

[my123]

Optimus proper power management for laptops on Linux (including fully turning the GPU down) only works on Coffee Lake (and AMD Renoir) and later with Ampere or later GPUs.

Prior to that generation, standard power management mechanisms don't work, and so the NVIDIA driver doesn't turn off the GPU when idle on those older platforms.

[FirmwareBurner]

Then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_5EKNX0Eg

[refracture]

So both the iGPU and Discrete GPUs lacked power management all together, that would explain a lot about how miserable this has been.

[refracture]

It will likely be an AMD APU as well, and I'll probably install Fedora or Kubuntu on it. I have no interest in discrete GPUs on laptops anymore, I do appreciate the gaming options it provides but I don't appreciate the heat and poor battery life. I also play a lot of older games that run great on any recent APU, some of which were just too demanding for the intel GPU on that Dell and really needed the Nvidia GPU to run well.