From my recent experience of setting up a GPU machine, the Nouveau driver was unusable to get a working desktop. I ended up having to use

'The Zephyrus G14 is a dual-GPU gaming laptop, and Linux tends not to fare well with that setup. But it's the only Ryzen 4000 equipped laptop I have available—so it was obviously going to get Linux on it, whether it liked it or not. Since brand-new hardware generally calls for brand-new distro versions, I grabbed a fresh copy of the Ubuntu Focal Fossa beta and gave it a whirl. I have the sad duty of reporting that the results were mediocre at best.' -- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/linux-on-laptops-asus-zephyrus-g14-w... the Ubuntu server edition instead with a text-based setup, which required me to have ethernet plugged in for internet. The strangest thing on this machine is docker: after rebooting the machine, I have to restart docker before I can do anything with it... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/