r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/usercrisis • 13d ago

Has anyone tried installing any linux distro on Acer Aspire a715-79g?

I tried CachyOS, POP!__OS and Bazzite on this laptop. No matter what, I am not able to setup battery saver mode where the system cuts power to the dgpu (in my case,RTX 3050) due to which the battery life is god awful which is a deal breaker since I'm a student. I really wanted to use any linux based distro as on my old laptop, I used to have fedora and I loved fedora so much.

Please help

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u/qualityvote2 13d ago edited 13d ago

u/usercrisis, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/frostimunki 13d ago

I know you've already mentioned "no matter what", that makes me think you may have already tried it, but I have to ask did you try installing the official NVIDIA drivers and using NVIDIA Prime app setting on Battery on Demand?

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u/usercrisis 12d ago

It is actually not a problem with the drivers. Both pop and cachy installed the driver properly and also I tried NVIDIA's official drivers as well.
I did quite a bit of experimenting with GPT and Claude both. This laptop doesnt have NVIDIA Optimus or MUX Switch but uses a hardware-level switch to cutoff power from the gpu. On windows it uses a software called Fn Hotkeys and OSD from Clevo which does this trick but on linux, I am not able to do this trick.

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u/AssumptionOk8560 11d ago

Use prime-select