Okay so i tried everything here to the dot. Including forcing full composition pipeline. Did nothing. My screen continues to flicker.
Interesting observation, even though the article said igpu will break after following the above, it still lets me boot in / no black screen.
Optimus manager does nothing while in dgpu mode.
I have dkms drivers installed.
I am running plasma KDE with X11.
here is the output of `inxi -Fxxxza --no-host’ : https://pastebin.com/gLZVzfen