u/ExistingSelection180

I started using Nobara and then due to technical problems I had to migrate to Pop OS.

I have a rather special laptop, an Asus Artbook H5600 that has an AMD iGPU and an RTX GPU (hybrid graphics) with a whole graphics production ecosystem (video, audio and 3d graphics editing):

Artbook 24 screen
Wacom Cintiq 16
Elgato streamdeck
Elgato wave XLR
Elgato facempro 4K
Elgato promise DV

For all these peripherals I work with Wyland, x11 you can’t do it with so many peripherals.

To Pop! _OS has worked well but Cosmic DE is impossible with Wacom. Install Gnome and now that they are going to go to 26lts I probably have update problems so I am considering migrating to another system. I left Nobara because although I detected everything when editing with Davinci Resolve it did not detect the CUDA cores. It sucks that every time I update a new version in POP I have to reinstall everything from scratch. So the AI recommended Tumbleweed to me as a semi rolling release distribution that I can have in the medium term the improvements without suffering problems of a rolling release.

Do you recommend it for my laptop? With Nobara I had a Kernell panic when I tried to save energy from the GPU (pass to a semi-rest) I did not have an option to change from economic to performance without having to restart. (I forgot to restart and it went to corruption).

Before trying anything I would prefer to ask you about compatibility with my laptop.

I thought of Ubuntu Studio or normal Ubuntu but the snaps always takes away one’s desire in the face of so much criticism.

Nobara was the first distro I installed on both my office computer and my Asus H5600 laptop. On my office computer, I haven't had any problems, even though it's a rolling release. However, I did run into some issues on my Asus laptop.

I installed it and it worked fine at first, but after a while, when I tried to edit with DaVinci Resolve—since I have a hybrid graphics card (integrated AMD and dedicated NVIDIA)—it didn't detect the card correctly and didn't work properly, no matter how much I configured the connection with Primus and so on. I installed the ASUS ROG Control to force it to always use the dedicated GPU. Later, I configured it to reboot into power-saving mode (all via the terminal, since the graphical interface wasn’t working for this) and it went into a kernel panic; according to the AI reports, the system became corrupted.

I then installed POP OS with Genome, which had the option to launch in dedicated mode via the right-click menu, and I didn't have any issues with DaVinci Resolve.

However, I think I read here recently about some updates to Nobara this month (or last month) that added support for hybrid laptops like mine. And I just realized that they have a GNOME NVIDIA version. My questions are:

1 Does this update improve compatibility with my laptop?
2 Has anything been added to allow me to switch between dedicated, hybrid, and power-saving modes, like I can in Pop OS?

I wanted to update, but I'm worried that my distros won't be able to run my virtual machines anymore.

I installed gnome because cosmic did not work for me on my Wacom peripherals, the extensions of the 22 do not work on the 24, I imagine that since they concentrated on cosmic it was not done.... Can someone do this for you?