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professional tip for those who decided to rock Debian on a laptop with two GPUโs.
Envycontrol will take the headache away from manually configuring your xorg & xrandr, trust me, compared to the Debian documentation this will save you hours of your life.
...who... IN THE FUCK!!! Reads Debian docs?
Arch are the true Linux docs, maybe Gentoo docs, worst case Ubuntu forums.
Run a ton of Debian, only time I check their docs is when I'm trying to remember what the current stable release is called.
How else does one learn the distro they use without consulting the documentation?
Like I said, I use debian docs to install.
After that arch docs are INCREDIBLY thorough, they cover almost all of linux and are far more exhaustive than any other.
You didnโt say that, you said.
Yeah I wouldnโt trust the documentation for another distribution on my install, you do you though.
I've had some good experience in the past. All the Debian specific information was properly documented in the packages README files.
I agree.
But honestly, how much Debian specific anything is there outside the install?
In fact debian is branded as the most boring vanilla distro there is, for good reason.
Almost everything Linux you do is better documented in the arch docs imho.
Honestly, Linux has progressed immensely the past decade and I only read documentation when setting up servers these days. I'm mostly an Arch derivative desktop user but I still love Debian on the server side.
The Debian specific stuff are usually in the service description (email, web, ssh servers), and they are quite nice.
Debian is godly for servers, stable, robust, and most software is supported one way or another.
Also none of that redhat bs like their management stack, or Ubuntu and snap.
Their only weakness was they were far dated on kernels and software and that changed over the last 5 years, they're often ahead of ubuntu now.
My first choice is always freebsd if I don't need kvm or docker and the software is there, arch if it's more workstationy, Gentoo if I'm in a fun mood (mained it for years but it kept breaking), and finally Debian if I just want something that works.
Even with Debian, wrote an lxc-based stack so it's often just a base for arch for fun and Ubuntu for work. This is where it truly shines.
The Debian docs are pretty solid. Not as large as Arch but still just as useful
I do that. Why not? Best source on Debian specific stuff.
mandb -su | man man
Can it force apps to use iGPU when dGPU is on? It's one of the things I miss from windows and couldn't figure out on linux
It has this hybrid option, thatโs about it from what I know.
Edit: the
โrtd3flag seems to have different levels of power management.Ah so it's about the same-ish functionality as
supergfxctlandsystem76-powerit seems. For me I'm searching for more granular control. e.g. if I'm gaming with dGPU-primary I might want to move browser and such to iGPU to free up dGPU VRAM, or just to put it to lower power states because spinning this behemoth up for youtube videos seems inefficient. Otherwise, when I'm in iGPU primary, it sometimes misdetects when to activate the dGPU and chokes the poor little thing down or, again, spins up the dGPU needlessly.Did they finally stop with that crap? Having 4k on a display size where it makes no sense but needs a dedicated GPU because iGPU were not good enough then.