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I Just made the jump from a macbook to a dual GPU nvidia Razer Blade 15 running pop!_os. Everything more or less works out of box except for thermal CPU boosti
by lumost 6y ago
I Just made the jump from a macbook to a dual GPU nvidia Razer Blade 15 running pop!_os. Everything more or less works out of box except for thermal CPU boosting ( which works with some minor tweaks). With the hybrid power mode you still need to manually decide which apps to run on the dedicated GPU, but it mostly powers down when not in use.
Still, all the issues running linux on heterogeneous desktop hardware leads me to think that we need a better business model for linux on the laptop.
- m463 6y ago> better business model for linux on the laptop I wonder what the numbers are for linux on laptops. I suspect that the number of people who buy new laptops dedicated to linux are low I think it's much more common to replace a laptop and put linux on the old one. And there could also be a middle ground where folks dual-book linux and their favorite OS. Given that, it's no wonder Microsoft is heading off dedicated linux laptops by running linux in a container under windows.
- lumost 6y agoExcluding chromebooks the market share is ~1-2% of all machines. However when you look at the developer crowd, the situation changes with ~25% of devs using Linux as their primary OS. Considering that developers often prefer premium and powerful laptops it seems like there could be a market if the experience was polished. Edit: Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-environments-and-tools https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-e...