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Does Discrete Graphics work in Linux somehow? Does it require some drivers? At ZBook I needed to change to UMA Graphics because it uses much less CPU and works
by xet7 4y ago
Does Discrete Graphics work in Linux somehow? Does it require some drivers? At ZBook I needed to change to UMA Graphics because it uses much less CPU and works better.
- wging 4y agoYes, it works, and yes, it requires drivers, but those are readily available as I understand it. Some of the Linux laptops the OP mentioned do have discrete graphics cards (Oryx, for example, has an Nvidia card; for clarity, like all of System76's computers it comes with Linux). As I understand it, if you are willing to run proprietary code you can sometimes get better drivers. I would be fine with that, personally, but not everyone agrees. ("Proprietary" refers to availability of source code - some drivers are free-as-in-cost but not open source, and you might have worse performance with open source drivers. This might just be Nvidia, or it might be AMD/Intel too.)