I have an HP Victus laptop that I’m trying to get to fully work. It has two GPUs. The integrated is an AMD and the discrete is an Nvidia. For about a month I’ve been attempting to get Debian 12 to see and use the Nvidia card. My knowledge on anything Linux is not strong.

I got as far as getting the proprietary driver loaded. I just couldn’t get anything to side load it when I launched anything.

I’ve stepped back a bit, and started to wonder if I’d have a better experience if I tried a different distro. I’ve heard some are better for multi-GPU situations like Manjaro.

So I guess I’m asking everyone if I should try jumping distros for this AMD/Nvidia situation?

  •  Psynthesis   ( @Psynthesis@beehaw.org ) 
    3•7 months ago

    Have you checked this? https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA Optimus I have never needed to mess with dual gpus, but this should hopefully help with your current distro. If you use another distro, you are still going to have to search how to use hybrid graphics on it. So if you’re happy with Debian, try the guide. Before jumping to another distro, research /look into what that would take to get running before you jump.