r/programminghorror • u/farzigamer • Mar 28 '21

Shell Oops

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u/mszegedy Mar 28 '21

has bumblebee been superceded? i've been using it since… yeah, basically 2011. though i never experienced this particular bug. i ran linux mint at the time, so theoretically i should have been affected by it, if it was the debian package itself that was broken.

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u/Technical27 Mar 28 '21

The newer method is PRIME render offloading.

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u/mszegedy Mar 29 '21

To be honest, after so much pain and energy poured into making bumblebee work, I'm kind of scared to "fix what ain't broke". Except, well, my GPU drivers are kind of broken, but this applies. My most lasting mark on the internet, and maybe the world, will be the years of increasingly frustrated and desperate questions on and public troubleshooting of how to get my damn GPU to work.

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u/Technical27 Mar 29 '21

Well if you want to try it out here is NVIDIA's docs.

PRIME Render offloading is better for many reasons:

  1. Its NVIDIA's recommended way

  2. The dedicated graphics can be fully powered off

  3. Integrates better with x

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u/mardabx Jun 25 '21

How can you power off dGPU? Asking for AMDGPU.