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Install nvidia, install bumblebee, add yourself to the bumblebee group. Not really that hard...

looki 10y ago
Until you realize you want to connect a monitor or projector: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-monitor-setup https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-mo...
- Nullabillity 10y ago
  I've connected both of my Optimus-running ASUS laptops to projectors multiple times with no issues. But, as the article says, YMMV.
IshKebab 10y ago
That's actually stupidly hard. Why do you need to do anything at all?
- Nullabillity 10y ago
  As opposed to the Windows approach (unless you enjoy being stuck with preloaded malware, such as Superfish, McAfee, or Mac OS X): * WTF, why isn't my NIC registering? I thought we had a standard for this stuff by now. * Download NIC drivers from secondary computer * Put NIC drivers on a USB stick * Install NIC drivers * Nothing happened, turns out you found the drivers for the wrong revision of the chipset, go back to square one * Download Nvidia drivers * Try to install, nope, you need to find the Intel drivers first * Download and install Intel drivers * Install the Nvidia drivers again * It's 2AM already, go to sleep * You forgot to turn off Windows Update, and now you're stuck with Windows 10 * Reformat again, and start over As opposed to: $ sudo pacman -S nvidia bumblebee && sudo usermod -aG bumblebee $(whoami) && reboot
  - Ezhik 10y ago
    You are comparing a 7 year old version of Windows to a recent Linux release. Obviously Windows 7 will not have all the drivers.
    - pritambaral 10y ago
      Windows may have been released 7 years ago, but it gets updates pretty frequently. Windows 7 has had the ability to install drivers from Windows updates for a few years now. The linux comparison isn't recent either. That was the exact same procedure I had to do on an nVidia-stricken laptop (thankfully not mine) four years ago.

looki 10y ago

Until you realize you want to connect a monitor or projector: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-monitor-setup https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-mo...

Nullabillity 10y ago
I've connected both of my Optimus-running ASUS laptops to projectors multiple times with no issues. But, as the article says, YMMV.

IshKebab 10y ago

That's actually stupidly hard. Why do you need to do anything at all?

Nullabillity 10y ago
As opposed to the Windows approach (unless you enjoy being stuck with preloaded malware, such as Superfish, McAfee, or Mac OS X): * WTF, why isn't my NIC registering? I thought we had a standard for this stuff by now. * Download NIC drivers from secondary computer * Put NIC drivers on a USB stick * Install NIC drivers * Nothing happened, turns out you found the drivers for the wrong revision of the chipset, go back to square one * Download Nvidia drivers * Try to install, nope, you need to find the Intel drivers first * Download and install Intel drivers * Install the Nvidia drivers again * It's 2AM already, go to sleep * You forgot to turn off Windows Update, and now you're stuck with Windows 10 * Reformat again, and start over As opposed to: $ sudo pacman -S nvidia bumblebee && sudo usermod -aG bumblebee $(whoami) && reboot
- Ezhik 10y ago
  You are comparing a 7 year old version of Windows to a recent Linux release. Obviously Windows 7 will not have all the drivers.
  - pritambaral 10y ago
    Windows may have been released 7 years ago, but it gets updates pretty frequently. Windows 7 has had the ability to install drivers from Windows updates for a few years now. The linux comparison isn't recent either. That was the exact same procedure I had to do on an nVidia-stricken laptop (thankfully not mine) four years ago.