my recommendation in case you will use KDE Gnome or Cinnamon:
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/hardware/switcheroo-control/2025/02/
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Thanks a lot @joekamprad
I will be on KDE and the configuration mentioned in my first post, LTS during installation.
You are generously giving me a lot and I learned a lot from you.
As I understand this is in case there is more than on GPU card. Right?
I will wait and see what machine I will get.
I deeply appreciate all your help.
Thanks a billion. 
yes in most case you will have a in side the CPU GPU (igpu) and a decent GPU extra chip set (Nvidia or AMD) Could be also A Gaming Notebook is using Nvidia GPU by default or even have only the Nvidia GPU.
Simply post the output of inxi -Gaz and you will always have a ton of users went in to give you the info 
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I am sure. This is why I love EndeavourOS, for more than a quarter of a century since 2000 on Linux and distro hopping like crazy 2020-2021 till settled on EndeavourOS, I never enjoyed a distro or learned as much as I learned here.
Amazing community and amazing distro. The best of the best.
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If you have a 16 series GPU or any RTX GPU up until the RTX 50 series, you can use either nvidia-dkms or nvidia-open-dkms, the latter being what Nvidia is using going forward for their GPUs and that kernel module is actually open source unlike the older module.
RTX 50 series and later only supports nvidia-open-dkms, so if you’re one of the few people who have these fails of GPUs, then you cannot use nvidia-dkms.
Also, @joekamprad I tried using nvidia-inst on my Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti laptop and my RTX 4090 destop; both tried to uninstall the nvidia-open-dkms and other related packages and install the closed kernel driver. (Thank goodness I used the -t flag to make sure of what I was doing first!) Has this been fixed for Turing, Ampere, and Lovelace GPUs yet to use the open kernel modules whenever possible and supported? (Nvidia themselves support both but do recommend using nvidia-open-dkms whenever possible. I know this was fixed on the Mercury EndeavourOS ISO, but it still was broken a few weeks ago afaik when I switched to the RTX 3080 Ti laptop.)
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Wow @cameron
This is too much info for me. I am absolutely noob to NVIDIA. I know nothing about it! I will wait and see, hopefully I will get my new laptop soon. I am still researching what best to get.
If i am not wrong you can block packages from installing/updating.
Edit:
https://ostechnix.com/safely-ignore-package-upgraded-arch-linux/
Only supports the very latest cards, nothing says latest are only supported by it and will not work with closed source one.
the NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules would eventually supplant the closed-source driver.
So one day in the future as it looks from my information?
So we could think about
for nvidia-inst too ?
Or it could ask user about using the one or the other if both are supported?
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Use option --open with nvidia-inst to select the open source Nvidia driver.
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