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Setup Arch on New Laptop (self.archlinux)

submitted 1 month ago by PancakeBrock to c/[email protected]

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I've been running Arch for about a year on my pretty old Acer laptop with an I7 8750h and a GTX 1060. Got a pretty good deal on a used Asus Tuf A16 with a Ryzen 7 7735hs and an RX 7700s.

Getting Arch going with my Nvidia card was a bit of a pain. Still have the random game that thinks it needs to use the Intel GPU (which I eventually solved).

So is there anything I need to do for this new laptop or since it's all AMD should everything just work?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

With AMD it’ll just work

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For steam/gaming, you'll need vulkan-radeon or amdvlk now (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan#Installation), instead of nvidia-utils (which you may need to uninstall if you're using the same install). If you're using the same install, just do a

pacman -Qq | grep nvidia

to check for any nvidia specific packages, and replace them with generic/amd-specific packages according to logic or the Wiki.

For selecting a GPU: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan#Switching_between_devices and maybe Prime (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME)

[–] PancakeBrock 3 points 1 month ago

Awesome thanks. That's what I was looking for. I decided just to do a fresh install once it gets delivered. I don't have much on this one other then some work stuff I can transfer over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@PancakeBrock
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen probably applies , but for me everything was working out of the box.