Ken, Can you talk about the softwares you use in a daily basis like cad etc.? I consider always useful know about this details. ☺
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 15:11 Ken Funk <fu...@engr.orst.edu> wrote: > 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 >
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