I recently purchased a Zephyrus G14 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 9 HX 370 and Nvidia GTX 5080, and I was really looking forward to installing Linux on it. I opted for Fedora 42 and booted it into trial mode. While I encountered some issues, like sound not working, overall it wasn't too bad until I visited a webpage. That's when I started seeing strange visual artifacts and my screen began making loud electrical buzzing noises. It freaked me out, and I shut it down quickly. The site had effects that looked like they might be using WebGL or WebGPU, so I'm wondering if it could be a driver issue. Was I being overly optimistic thinking Fedora would work on such new hardware?
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You've got some cutting-edge hardware there, which means a distro with a newer kernel is your best bet for optimization. Fedora is a good choice, but also consider Ubuntu or Arch for better driver support. Did you install the NVIDIA drivers? That’s key, especially if secure boot is on, in which case you'll need to sign the driver or just disable secure boot altogether. Also, don’t forget to set up multi-GPU management with NVIDIA Optimus or Prime to efficiently manage which GPU is being used. If the issues keep happening even after these setups, we can definitely troubleshoot further.
If I already have the NVIDIA drivers on Windows, will I need to reinstall them on Fedora?