My laptops are all hand-offs and corporate writeoffs. I haven’t purchased a laptop for my own use since 2000!
Recently I got the laptop I got for my son a couple years ago for college (2020?) when he bought a System76 Darter Pro for himself.
I am wondering what is the CURRENT state of running Hybrid graphics in Linux?
Right now I have the laptop running Windows, and I like how I can designate applications (games) to use the Nvidia graphics while everything else uses the less-power-hungry integrated Intel.
From what I have read, Pop! OS and KDE (like Neon) have some features for selecting or managing the graphics used. I think Pop! OS, though, the extension only works up to Ubuntu 22.04.
Does anybody have insight from current distributions and/or desktop environments for handling graphics. As is usual with Linux, sometimes searches comes up with information for older releases and things may have changed a lot since then.
Any thoughts, experiences, rumors or links will be appreciated.
Thanks!
But these systems are usually older when I get them, and are not gaming systems. Recently, (a couple years ago) my son bought his own System76 Darter Pro and so I recently got his old laptop I got him when he went into college.
This laptop matches the power of my desktop (tha’ts not saying much) with its hybrid graphics.
So my question is about the state of hybrid graphics and Linux. Any Linux.
I do like how right now I can select the applications (games) to run on the Nvidia graphics while 95% of the time I am on the integrated Intel and saving battery life.