Fans do wind up on heavy CPU/GPU load. The HP laptop cooler is quite a bit better than many I've had before, and the fan winds down about as quickly. I've bro

Fans do wind up on heavy CPU/GPU load. The HP laptop cooler is quite a bit better than many I've had before, and the fan winds down about as quickly. I've brought this laptop to outdoor (!) karate class when we had some zoom students on. I manually adjusted the brightness, but it was fine. By default, mint installs the AMD driver, and nouveau. I wrote a simple switcher a few months ago, so I can toggle between AMD and NVidia. Next gen mint (due in a few weeks) apparently has the AMD/Nvidia optimus like switcher built in. For this laptop, one downside is that I could not get the AMD to drive the external displays as well as the laptop display. Nvidia can drive both. It looks like this is a switcher config, that xrandr can't handle (at least the versions I have on there). If this is fixed in the next version, I'll happily use AMD for most display and NVidia for my GPU work (computing).