I’m disabled and no way to get anything from what I have now, which is a omen laptop from 2016 and no matter what ditro, and whatever fixes I try, I can’t get Linux to work with my games through steam without a lot of problems.
When do you think Nvidia will actually be usable for gaming on a laptop?
Distro I used was Ubuntu, nobara, pop os, EndeavourOS, umm like others I can’t currently remember.
Always seems to be some minor thing that just breaks things or little nuanced glitches in the desktop environment, like kde plasma just not showing specific things.
If I could get a better laptop or computer that wouldn’t have these problems I would.
I’m forced to be on windows 10.
My computer is a omen laptop
https://support.hp.com/ee-en/document/c06425980
With a Nvidia 1660gt iirc
EDIT: forgot to mention my Logitech mouse that didn’t seem to work besides basic mouse functionality, I need certain macros and things on it which doesn’t save on the mouse it self (mouse was a gift from my mom)
Did try x11 and had various problems with that too as well as severe performance drops in games, even ones with native Linux support.
Also did check the hybrid option in bios and various places and there isn’t any options for it anywhere.
Oh that sucks for the hybrid option. Most hybrids allow you to turn that off, and you get a fair FPS boost for it in most games. I’m surprised the Omen doesn’t allow it.
For my hybrid laptop, I have to control it with prime-select instead of in bios. I wonder if the games were actually running on the nvidia GPU. If they weren’t, you could have lots of performance problems. Did nvidia-smi say that the games were running on them?