Hi all,

I’m in the market for a new big desktop replacement gaming laptop, and looking at the market there are almost exclusively Nvidia powered.

I was wondering about the state of their new open-source driver. Can I run a plain vanilla kernel with only open source / upstream packages and drivers and expect to get a good experience? How is battery life, performance? Does DRI Prime and Vulkan based GPU selection “just work”?

The only alternative new for my market is a device with an Intel Arc A730M, which I currently think is going to be the one I end up buying.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s because starting with April 2022 they mixed the AMD chipset from the Deck in with the PC stats. If you go back to March 2022 it’s different.

      • donio@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yep, I realized that as soon as I posted and tried to ninja-delete but too late :)

        If I sum up the numbers from March 2022 it’s 26% AMD and 38% NVIDIA.