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    7 months ago

    Reach out to the folks on the ASUS Linux discord, the vast majority of the zephyrus and rog laptops use Nvidia gpus and I’m sure someone (or maybe multiple someones) would be willing to give beta feedback. Fedora is a fairly popular distro there.

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      7 months ago

      I have an ASUS ROG laptop running Fedora 39 right now. The reason Fedora is popular with these laptops is that the controller that switches between the two graphics cards is native to Fedora. It’s explicitly recommended on the site.

      EDIT: It looks like there are more distros that work on ROG laptops since I did it. Pretty cool!

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        Yeah, Arch (and derivatives) and Fedora are well supported. I did a lot of the kernel platform support and regression testing for the project & the AMD kernel folks while we were getting support ironed out for the 5000 and 6000 series models.

        Fedora has good support because that’s what Luke uses for his daily driver machines and Dragonn & others put together the Arch packaging. Those two distros (plus Endeavor and other Arch derivatives) are widely used.

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          Woah, you were involved in the project! That’s really cool. I’ve had Garuda on my mind for a while, and earlier today I was able to boot it off the live USB with NVIDIA proprietary drivers. That’s a really good sign for me, so I think I’m gonna go for it once I’ve backed things up.

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            Hybrid Nvidia support should work fine these days. I’ve been using hybrid amd/nvidia machines since about 2020 without too many issues. You’ll need nvidia-dkms, supergfxctl and asusctl and things should mostly just work otherwise.