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That looks like an amazing machine. Is it the same as in this review https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-15-9560-i7-7700HQ-UHD-Laptop-Review.200648.0.html ht

• pricechild 9y ago
  I've given up on bumblebee. I have upgraded an Ubuntu laptop over a few years and every upgrade it broke, requiring some new incantation to fix it the next time. I don't think it's considered the future? I believe the future is called "Prime Synchronisation", announced a few years ago. Good luck getting it to work though: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/prime-and-prime-synchronization/ https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/prime-and-pr... I gave up after a while. We're probably nearing the time when I'll give all the methods another go, but currently I'm back into the "change setting and log out + in" camp. As an aside, bumblebee also seems to break my i3 environment... I get hangs & magic sysreq won't recover. I've had to go back to the default DE.
• JoshTriplett 9y ago
  > I had lots of annoyance with a previous Optimus based notebook. How has the situation of bumblebee and primusrun and dualbooting improved in the past two years? Very slightly, but you're better off getting a notebook that actually has FOSS graphics drivers, for a much more stable and reliable experience. It's unfortunate that you can't upgrade the XPS15 to the 4K display or a quad-core processor without getting the nVidia graphics along with it. IIRC, some previous models included 4K configurations without that.