He’s referring to a hardware mux. Essentially, it’s hardware that will bypass your iGPU and directly use your dGPU. It’s more expensive to find laptops with hardware muxes, but they perform a bit better because output isn’t being routed through the iGPU first.

The downside of a hardware mux is that you have to switch between the dGPU and iGPU in your UEFI. This means you need to restart the computer every time you want to change which GPU you’re using. The dGPU will result in better performance at the cost of battery life.

Odds are your laptop does not have a hardware mux and you will need to go through the standard optimus setup for your distro. Some distros make this easy with their own tools, like Linux Mint and Manjaro.

I’ve been using Manjaro for years and highly recommend it.

That said, lenovo build quality has gone way downhill and anyone reading this might want to avoid them in their next purchase.

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Poorly-developed anticheat software.

Not really. I’m glad they removed the button.

It’s clear for anyone who wasn’t born yesterday that the “issues” the bottles team seem to have all revolve around maintaining their control over what should be free software. The “we can’t keep up with bug reports” is a talking point for those who don’t know any better. It’s a distraction.

They don’t want people repackaging their software because their donation buttons might get removed, for example.

I support suse in this regard.

2 things to the bottles devs:

1. Focus on improving your software, not who is redistributing it.

2. If packaging it is “so difficult,” maybe you could be doing a better job to make it easier? Just an idea!

In all honesty, the bottles team doesn’t want people to repackage their software because their donation buttons might get removed. Greedy little fellas!

as they drown in bugs and supporting non predictable environment with unknown dependencies creates too many problems for them

This is a legit non-issue for so many other projects. What makes bottles special?

I’ve been around the block enough times to notice greed and entitlement when I see it.

The bottles devs don’t have their heads in the right place. They should be focusing more on making their software better instead of worrying about who is redistributing it.

Trust me, the closer you get to the linux community, the more you’ll realize that the “elitists” are just a small and abrasive minority.

They’re not even enthusiasts; just trolls trying to send others down bad paths.

Free software is for everyone. Not just nerds who know how to tinker.

You’re not old.

You just haven’t sold out.

I’m using it the same way I’d be using office.

The collaborative document editing doesn’t apply to me.

cloud native

Already rings an alarm bell, but thank you for sharing regardless.

Also, their website runs like shit. I don’t have much hope for them making a gaming OS that doesn’t, but time will tell.

If you ever get involved in hacking, a lot and I mean a LOT of the tools are written in Python.

It can be a real PITA to set up a ton of different, standalone python programs, so kali linux comes with most of what people will need installed and ready to go.

Personal rant: Stop writing your programs in Python. If it’s meant to be distributed, use a compiled language.

I’m glad people bring this up.

Private companies are not intrinsically better than public ones, but at least they have the capacity to be.

Valve is one of the very few examples of a company that sees the value in working with customers, not against them. This would be impossible if Valve were publicly-traded.

SteamOS is better than, for example, macOS and Windows because of licenses.

Since you’re new (welcome!), I should let you in on a little secret: pretty much the entire free software movement is built around licensing. I know, it’s boring and seems insignificant. But the outcomes are profound.

Because SteamOS is built to function within the free software ecosystem, it means users are never beholden to the decisions of one centralized entity (usually the company that owns the software patents.)

If Valve ever decides to, say, include candy crush ads in SteamOS’ start menu (they’d have to make their own start menu, since right now SteamOS uses one that’s already made by the free software community), then users can choose to remove that part of the menu or replace the menu altogether without having to start from scratch.

For wealthy people who can always pay the “proprietary tax,” this might seem like a non-issue. Practically speaking, these people only want their software to work without hassle. They don’t care about the true cost of that software, such as only one entity being able to modify/distribute the software. It’s not until, say, photoshop starts charging a subscription (which they can always increase the price of) that people start to see the value in free software and the importance of licensing.

Not really. The “control mechanism” is already in place for games that rely on Steam’s infrastructure for their online functionality.

I’ve been saying for years: we need a dedicated gaming operating system.