This is actually an interesting topic, and one that I am attempting to cover in my Blender Corner Blender Creators Unite ! | The Blender Watercooler of the “Fedora-Verse”, Intel uses OneAPI for it’s compute workloads.
There are too few creators using Blender with Intel and OneApi on Linux at the moment to properly understand usability. Using the Blender Flatpak with Intel GPU ( iGPU, ARC ) does not work. There is no support for Intel compute in the FreeDesktop runtime and no sdk available.
- Please do not take the experience of a random Void Linux user as a usecase to purchase hardware for such a task.
So for me 2D / 3D workloads are unfortunately AMD ( .rpm only ) / and Nvidia.
If this is a hobby, and you are willing to make sacrifices, then maybe. . .
If you like your hobby, want to get better and enjoy what you do, you have to go with the tried and true solution.
I have seen a couple Laptop users here with All Intel builds, but none were creators/creative/gamers. Hope some will step up and speak on their use case and experiences.