What driver (free/non-free) should I select in the first installation window?

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I am going to install Manjaro KDE Plasma but after seeing a installation guide video I am stuck at a point

When we boot in the boot stick to install Manjaro, in the welcome screen we have to select time zone, keyboard layout and other settings but there is a option of driver selection as free or non free. I am not sure that which I have to choose. I have only an integrated Graphics Card of AMD with AMD processor and no nividia or dedicated graphics card. I have used Ubuntu and Linux mint but they both cannot automatically configure with the wifi driver and shows my wifi driver as a propriety driver.

What option should I select ? Please help me with the selection!!

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Do you by any chance have an HP laptop ?

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I have an HP All in One Desktop

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If you don’t have an nvidia card then just select free drivers

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HP doesnt seem to be doing that well when it comes to WiFi drivers and linux

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So it doesnt matter what GPU I have ? As long as its not Nvidia we have to choose free ? If yes, why is that ?

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But it shows realtek driver for wireless communication in the driver management in other Linux and it it not is use the driver manager gives a statement “No Propriety Driver is in use” but once it is enabled it gives “A propriety driver is in use”. These are the results in Linux mint and ubuntu

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see this

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Because for Intel & AMD, the proprietary drivers are best and they also have official support from the Intel & AMD themselves. Also, the drivers are built into the kernel.

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