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Bocchi199

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Registered: 2025-06-05

Posts: 2

Nvidia And Amd Drivers

I have been using arch linux for almost 3 years in HP elitebook i5 6th gen and intel hd graphics...Recently i bought a new laptop Lenovo LOQ 15AHP10 ryzen 7 250/radeon 780M with rtx 5050...now it has many extra functionalities like mux switch,advanced optimus,lenovo vantage,legion space,nahimic audio tuning,amd npu driver and radeon igpu driver etc...Finding all of these alternatives in linux is making me overwhelmed...Can someone help me what things i actually need...and there is also power management,  s2idle,amd pstate,early initcpio hooks,kernel boot parameters, mesa,open-gl,vulkan utilities and layers,vrr,hdr,npu driver stack,performance monitoring,cpu/gpu overclocking/undervolting softwares etc..

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,041

Re: Nvidia And Amd Drivers

Start with separating unrelated stuff .

NPU for example is used for machine learning / LLM and other "AI" related tasks.
vrr, hdr, vulkan, opengl , mesa are graphics related .

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky