Did you make sure that Nouveau was not loading? If both drivers are on the system, Nouveau usually ends up taking precedence unless it's been blacklisted. Also, if this is a laptop type with a hybrid graphics setup, you may need additional software to manage the handoff between GPUs (optimus, bumblebee, etc.)
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This could be an issue where the AMD GPU is only being used. I, like some of the others would suggest Linux Mint.
My spouse has a laptop from Asus with VERY similar Specs (but an RTX 3050ti instead of a 3060) and so far Linux Mint has been a pretty trouble -free experience with ONE condition:
I set it to use the dedicated nvidia gpu 24/7 as opposed to the integrated AMD gpu. I forgot what exactly was happening but if memory serves it was disrupting something, I think recovering from closing the lid?
After doing that we’ve never had an issue again. They mostly use at their desk plugged in, sp the power usage isn’t much a concern.
Hope this helps!
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Give Linux Mint a spin, I seriously doubt there's a friendlier distribution for newcomers from Windows.
But would it fix the core issues that OP is having?
Not directly, I'm just giving OP the answer they wanted:
The quick and dirty questions is: Which distro should I try next?
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I don’t have experience with dual GPU laptops but from what I’ve heard PopOS handles them really well. They also have an image with the nvidia drivers preinstalled which should make the setup process straightforward
Edit: I also found this github repo which documents some fixes for issues on that device specifically. Not sure how many of these have been patched upstream by now but it’s worth checking out.
That's odd, I remember using Debian 12 without this issue when it was released, I later switched to an Arch based distro (Endeavour OS) to experiment with how it would run games (they ran better, I think some games were freezing on Debian 12 stable).
I can't say anything about Fedora, never used it.
Do you have more information about the specific driver you installed on Debian 12 and Fedora 42? Like the version number? Maybe the neofetch result of your computer specs too.
Sorry for not being able to give more details.
Thanks for your answer! I had 535 installed on Debian 12 and 570 on Fedora 42. This is the result of fastfetch (neofetch is EOL). Let me know if you need any more info or if you think you have something that might help. Thanks!
System Details:
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OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
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Host: Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ACH (82JQ)
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Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64
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Uptime: 30 mins
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Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Hardware:
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 4.46 GHz
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GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
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GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Series
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Memory: 4.30 GiB / 27.25 GiB (16%)
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Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
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Disk (/): 23.09 GiB / 243.14 GiB (9%)
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Display: 2560x1600 @ 60 Hz
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Battery: 60% [AC Connected]
Software Environment:
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DE: GNOME 48.1
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WM: Mutter (Wayland)
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Theme: Adwaita
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Packages: 2490 (rpm), 12 (flatpak)
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Shell: bash 5.2.37
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Terminal: Ptyxis 48.1
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Network: 192.168.2.14/24 (wlp4s0)
Check the lenovo legión discord server, there is a linux channel and they can help you better than here probably