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The best thing about arch is the wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.
I'm looking right now on optimus, and it's seems like it's what we need, we'll be testing it as soon as possible, thank you very much!
Why do you think Optimus is what you need? I run Arch with a 1050 and all I did was install the nvidia package and reboot.
Have you already tried that and run into issues?
Have you tried pacman -Syu nvidia?
Yes, he is been using arch for almost year and a half but he has never managed to make the drivers work, this pakage unfortunatley didn´t work neither when he tried himself or now while I'm trying to help him, thanks btw
I have a 1050 in my Laptop and it works fine with the nvidia package AS proprietary driver
Could you please provide me with a guide or tutorial for how to do it?
According to the linked wiki, try to go to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html.
Check on your laptop with dmesg | grep -i chipset the codename of your graphic card. With this you can check which driver is the best on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA. There is a paragraph, explaining which driver is the best.
If I understand it right, the nvidia package is the correct one for 1050. So you can use pacman -S nvidia with root privileges. All dependencies should be resolved automatically.
I would recommend to reboot, in case there are changed kernel modules.
2 things i have to note: Using Wayland is a total mess with nvidia. Specially on Arch Linux. I have screen flickering in GUI and games, the performance is so lala and tools like KeePass which needs access to the text in window titles did not work complete. On Manjaro, the flickering doesn't exist, but the other symptoms do. Maybe im missing some packages on Arch.
Second with Vulkan i have some tearing in games. I have not looked further in to that.
On the other hand, games like Satisfactory or Elder Scrolls Online, have more FPS with the same settings as on Windows.
Currently i test Arch and Manjaro in parallel on the same Laptop. But I tend to keep Manjaro and remove Arch. There are light pro's and con's, but overall, I'm more happy with Manjaro. But this has nothing to do with you're issue.
nvidia-dkms has never not worked for me. Arch wiki has more info in the nvidia page.
If this laptop is your friend's main laptop, I'd recommend going for something other than arch or at the very least preparing before going into it
If it ends up being Optimus, I've found optimus-manager-qt from the aur to be great. You don't have to mess around with configs and you can make switching or setting to Nvidia permanently really easy with it
Nuke it and install Pop for Nvidia. No sense in using Arch.
He likes arch and the whole point of the existence of distros is that you could take one and adjust it to your needs
What does that have to do with anything?
Every point you made is either patently false (isn't up to date, won't even work with gnome) or doesn't make any sense (installs the bare minimum, so stuff won't always work).
The only part we agree on is that arch isn't for everyone.
I think he meant the application GNOME Software. Only valid point, I would like to be able to install or at least update my arch packages through GNOME Software like I do with flatpaks. Doesn't have anything to do with the way Arch works tho, it's just that no one has made a plugin yet that allows this.
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