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Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook

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520 points iProject | 3 comments | 29 Nov 12 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dkhenry ◴[29 Nov 12 14:53 UTC] No.4847958[source]▶
Every time I read this I have to think to my self how silly it is to lead an article with Some things (particularly components like trackpads and Wi-Fi chips) take some fiddling to get working

Thats total balony, trackpads and WiFi have been well supported in Linux for almost a decade. It is _rare_ to find a labtop that when you install la fresh modern distro on it , things don't work. Yes every now and then you get a vendor who insist on doing something different, but most of the time its a synaptic track pad ( well supported ) and a Broadcom or Intel WiFi card ( well supported ). I can remember back in 2004 taking my Government Issued Dell laptop and installing Fedora on it and everything working out of the box.

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driverdan ◴[29 Nov 12 15:35 UTC] No.4848214[source]▶
I'll bite. Please tell me which laptops have fully supported graphics cards, including dynamic switching between integrated and discreet without reboot.
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1. rjbond3rd ◴[29 Nov 12 17:33 UTC] No.4848956[source]▶
Are you familiar with Bumblebee? It provides switching between integrated and discreet graphics without reboot for NVIDIA Optimus-equipped laptops.

Although at the moment it's a manual install, it should find its way into popular distros soon enough.

http://bumblebee-project.org/

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2. alirov ◴[29 Nov 12 22:51 UTC] No.4850771[source]▶
Bumblebee works well for me on a Samsung QX411. Once installed, just prepend 'optirun' to any command (like when running a game) and it will use the discrete graphics card.
3. driverdan ◴[29 Nov 12 23:47 UTC] No.4851015[source]▶
It's good to hear Bumblebee works now. When I was researching laptops earlier this year I read that it was unstable.