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If you want something user friendly and something with good gui support, why not try out fedora or opensuse tumbleweed

I have edited my comments with the links

I have the a wifi card from the MT7921 family as well in my MSI laptop and from what I can gather, the issue seems to the ~power~ ASPM state that the wifi card is in. This is especially a problem when rebooting your laptop as the card is in unexpected/wrong (for a lack of a better word) ~power~ ASPM state during boot up and hence the mt7921e kernel module fails to run. Fastboot also contributes to this so disable that if that is enabled.

The engineer from mediatek who is responsible for the mt7921 and associated modules was aware of the first issue and has submitted several patches to fix the issue. The most recent seems to have it becuase I dont face this problem anymore. I will link the thread where this issue was discussed if I find it.

Edit - GitHub thread discussing issue

Mediatek engineer describing what the issue may have been

No benefits. I was asking the main dev how much extra work he has to do to maintain the native versions

Is this an apple only problem¿? I don't face this on android

However, it doesn't have access to certain native APIs that the native app takes advantage of.

How much extra programming overhead does adding code to use these native APIs add to you¿?

I am stumped. How can steam/the system exhibit different behaviour when we are executing similar commands. Maybe it is because I have an amd+amd laptop so it automatically dumps the graphically intensive application to the dGPU. Or maybe because in a desktop, the dGPU is connected directly to the display, it not switching to the dGPU automatically as the user had specified the use of the iGPU. In my laptop(which has no mux switch), the iGPU will draw the frame on the screen even if it the dGPU which determines what is to be drawn

Odd. I am guessing that use integrated graphics option from the Gnome DE forces the use of the iGPU for everything steam launches. Do you also require to use the DRI_PRIME=1 command if you launch steam through the terminal in which case it automatically switches to the iGPU for the steam client because I sure did not when I was launching steam from the terminal to circumnagivate the issue

I used the workarounds mentioned in this post's comments to resolve the issue https://lemmy.one/post/151466. With this workaround there no need to use the DRI_PRIME=1 modifier for the games(atleast in my experience)

Edit : does somebody know to link the post in a way such that it opens within the app you are currently using(voyager for me) and does not open a new lemmy.one tab in the browser

See my reply to the parent comment

and then add DRI_PRIME=1 to the command options of the games you want to use your external GPU.

No you don't need to do this. The games will use the dGPU automatically. Only the steam client uses the iGPU

Thanks for the info. I have pop on an older laptop that I don't use much and now I ensure that it is updated

Infinity for reddit

I think you mean infinity for lemmy