my bad! it was this thread
i remember at some point xrandr --listprovidersshowed both cards but at the moment its showing 0 cards. not sure what i messed up;
i guess i didnt try ctrl+alt+delete.
Im starting to understand what these words mean.
I realised Xorg is something i can choose in the login screen so I did.
No clue how snapper works so I
restarted with a clean install of openSuse
Followed the instructions step by step. prime-select confirms nvidia for the next boot, but after I boot in its still Intel. This time im gonna hold off on tinkering;
loginctl show-session 1 | grep Type says Type=x11
btw, whats the difference between doc.opensuse and en.opensuse