GPU support in Manjaro Linux

[Katabasis]

Thinking about buying a new laptop with a fancy GPU; how does Manjaro Linux configure the wide variety of GPUs available? Have sent a note to your Manjaro Linux vendor about this question. My requirements are not great, but it would be nice to have good drivers in Linux for the GPU. Thank you.

[cscs]

The same or better than you find in other linux in general.
Manjaro also has Manjaro Settings Manager (and mhwd) to easily select drivers and kernels (mhwd-kernel).

Configure Graphics Cards

Both amdgpu and intel are open source so their development tracks with the rest of linux.
Nvidia packages are also available.

You can check packages here:
https://packages.manjaro.org/?query=nvidia

[linux-aarhus]

@Katabasis

Thinking about buying a new laptop with a fancy GPU

Research, research and then some research.

Hardware

[Teo]

From all i read here Nvidia seems like more troublesome than AMD.

[Katabasis]

Thank you. The Ubuntushop mentioned the Intel drivers. Thanks again.

[Katabasis]

Thank you.

[omano]

@Teo

From all i read here Nvidia seems like more troublesome than AMD

Not true. There is good support of Nvidia. Issues I can acknowledge are with latest hardware in the early days, this is also true for AMD which is funny as drivers are open source and baked into the kernel itself.

I often see issues rising with kernel updates here and there on various forums/platforms, on AMD, new bugs because of MESA, kernel, or whatever. This is the nature of the beast, nothing is perfect, and you see what you want to see.

In a way I could say by default there is a better support for Nvidia currently as you need to not use the Manjaro provided drivers for AMD if you want hardware decoding https://forum.manjaro.org/t/behind-the-scene-manjaro-community-mesa-nonfree-codecs/135012

[Katabasis]

One assumes that when you use mhwd to manually install a driver the driver needs to be in the current directory. Also, when using the GUI Hardware Detect tool does the downloaded driver need to be in a specific location to be found by the Detect tool? Thank you.

[cscs]

Please read the wiki, you dont download a driver into any directory.
You select from the provided options in the tool.
Anything else is unsupported.
(dont be scared - that covers the vast majority of devices)
This may go hand-in-hand with a grasp of how software installation and updates work in general - they are provided by the repositories, not by manually going to some website and downloading files ala windoze.