envycontrol VS asus-wmi-screenpad

You're probably looking for envycontrol ... it will allow you to switch back and forth between integrated/hybrid/dedicated-only graphics as needed. I used this on my 2023 Legion Slim 5 and it made a huge difference in power consumption. Now I only enable dedicated if I need it for something specific, which is rare for me. Computer generally sips between 16w-20w doing basic browsing tasks, with no other optimizations performed (this is on Fedora Silverblue)

Install EnvyControl, which is a useful package that can offload applications to the integrated GPU and turn off the dedicated Nvidia GPU. This will add a few hours at least to your battery life. Distro-specific instructions: https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol

Check out this video. https://youtu.be/Pn2iUgW3l6w . It's how I setup my graphics card. You could also use envy control https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol.

Now, it's much easier to enable the Fusion repository and Envycontrol makes it as easy as Ubuntu to switch GPUs! I also use DisplayLink for additional monitors and there is now a 3rd party rpm for that.

use envycontrol

I thus played a bit with https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol which is listed on the archwiiki, the problem is that now, even when selecting the "nvidia" mode and even when going back to "discret graphics" in the bios I'm encountering bugs I didn't have before, mainly SDDM being really zoomed, i3 borders being HUGE (while the rest is normal, I didn't change my config so it's likely not a DPI problem there), glitches when I first login with polybar duplicating itself and the wallpaper being broken, requiring to refresh i3 to have those 2 things fixes, picom animations are also super glitchy.

I've been running Nobara Project on it for the last few months, and have been very pleased with Wayland, even with an Nvidia dGPU. You will need to (build this to adjust brightness on the smaller screen)[https://github.com/Plippo/asus-wmi-screenpad], but I haven't had any unsolvable issues (for me, at least) since doing that.

I just installed Fedora 37 (dual boot with windows), and, since I have an Asus Zenbook Pro Duo, I needed a solution to handle better the second screen. I found this blog post which seems to be perfect for my problem. It led to this github repo which needed dkms and the kernel headers as prerequisites.

But unfortunately brightness control doesn't work for the 2nd screen out of the box on Linux. But someone already did the hard work to write a kernel module for it, then I only had to write an AUR package and a GNOME extension to sync it with the main screen

It was pretty easy on my UX481FLY. Just had to install this module (also made an AUR package for it) and write a small GNOME extension to sync brightness between screens and make some keys work (although it's not done yet. Currently it syncs brightness and makes the toggle on/off and screenshot keys work)

Really well on most distros, but for some reason it hangs occasionally on my arch install (but that's probably just an issue with how I installed/configured it, since it works perfectly in other distros. Or it might be because my home directory is stored on an SD card and not the SSD). Since there are multiple models, I have the UX481FLY, with an i7-10510U, 16GB RAM, Intel as primary GPU, and GeForce MX250 as secondary GPU. And not a GNOME issue, but bottom screen brightness control isn't supported by default, you need to install the asus-wmi-screenpad kernel module. And even with this module, it sadly isn't integrated into the DE, so you need to control it from the terminal. I might try learning how to make GNOME extensions in the future, so I can integrate it properly.