Thanks to everyone who has replied. Of small Dell laptops/notebooks, the Dell XPS 13 looks best, but the Dell Inspiron 11 3000 is less expensive. I am still making up my mind, but I think I have enough information to do it.
Best regards, Ken Kenneth H. Funk II, PhD Associate Professor School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon, USA 97331-6001 1-541-737-2357 | fu...@engr.orst.edu | http://www.engr.orst.edu/~funkk On 12/15/15 2:29 PM, Mark Constable wrote: > On 16/12/15 04:10, Eric Grejda wrote: >>> My office is full of committed Linux users and really the only thing >>> that causes pain is Optimus. > Has been a pain point for me too. > >> We've got it working well at work under Bumblebee. It even plays games >> nicely, so long as you remember to put your optirun command line options >> in a shell script. > I have never used that option as I prefer to run either intel or nvidia for > the entire desktop. The latest few versions of Kubuntu seem to be working > quite well by just installing the nvidia-prime and nvidia-352 packages > (which installs bbswitch-dkms to build the nvidia kernel modules) and > selecting either graphics engine then reboot. I don't do games so I am happy > with the intel driver, besides that the nvidia driver causes an annoying > artifact on a second TV monitor when playing movies. > > ~ prime-select --help > Usage: /usr/bin/prime-select nvidia|intel|query > > ~ prime-select query > intel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-Desktops mailing list > Linux-Desktops@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq -- _______________________________________________ Linux-Desktops mailing list Linux-Desktops@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
