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pepr on March 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNOME 3.8 Released

Somewhat improved, but especially in the notebook space it's still far from optimal. This is not necessarily fault of the commnunity - laptops often have custom hardware (e.g. NVIDIA Optimus) that simply doesn't have driver support because vendor doesn't care.

rjbond3rd on March 27, 2013 [–]

You may be happy to know that Optimus video is supported on Linux by Bumblebee, http://bumblebee-project.org/

lmm on March 27, 2013 | [–]

Yes and no. My system hard-shutdowns if I try and run Bumblebee. It works for some people but it's very much alpha quality at this point.

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