These days I was wondering what laptop GPU would be the easiest to maintain / simplest to configure from a laptop POV?
Considering NixOS (I see Nix as gentoo++) or arch.
Onboard Intel/amd? “Discrete” Intel/amd/nvidia?
Would prefer open source but am not Uber passionate (results > means).
Fictional use case is mid tier game development - ray tracing is nice but stability and minimal effort to keep stable while pushing decent amounts shader/polygons is more important vs peak perf/px. No bitbro / artificial guess.
Experiences & recommendos?
The answer is AMD/AMD, regardless of whether you're going for integrated or discreet. Reasons being stability and performance/price ratio. Stability because AMD's open-source drivers are excellent and rarely break with updates (not that it doesn't happen, but the breakage isn't as frequent as nVidia, statistically speaking). Plus, AMD drivers play better with Wayland compared to nVidia (although in saying that, nVidia has made some significant advancements in Wayland support recently, but may still require some custom variable settings/tweaks).