These days I was wondering what laptop GPU would be the easiest to maintain / simplest to configure from a laptop POV?
Considering NixOS (I see Nix as gentoo++) or arch.
Onboard Intel/amd? “Discrete” Intel/amd/nvidia?
Would prefer open source but am not Uber passionate (results > means).
Fictional use case is mid tier game development - ray tracing is nice but stability and minimal effort to keep stable while pushing decent amounts shader/polygons is more important vs peak perf/px. No bitbro / artificial guess.
Experiences & recommendos?
I have an Asus TUF with an iGPU and a discrete nVidia GPU. I did no configuration whatsoever to get the iGPU to work, and simply use prime-run when I need more GPU power (basically, only for Steam and Kdenlive).
I use Arch btw, on Xorg, with the closed-source nVidia driver (I never tried Wayland on this setup).