LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox, Remote Desktop, Citrix Receiver, and
when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, MS Office. I am using a MacBook now, but I
want to get back to Linux and Wine may give me access to what I
occasionally need in MSO.
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 12/16/15 9:50 AM, Marcos Alano wrote:
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
<mailto: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 <mailto:fu...@engr.orst.edu>
| http://www.engr.orst.edu/~funkk <http://www.engr.orst.edu/%7Efunkk>
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
>
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