Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak

Re:Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak by Shared404 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:06AM (#24638324)

I will anecdotally disagree.

Depending on which distro you use NVIDIA grapics can be quite painless. Using Pop!_OS, I just had to download the correct iso from their downloads page.

I believe most other distros have NVIDIA's drivers in their non FL/OSS repos as well.

Optimus graphics will even work with the most current drivers.

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Re:Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak by windexh8er on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:22AM (#24638441)

I'll agree here as well. While I'd love to get more AMD centric options without Nvidia - they're not as bad these days as it was years ago. In fact I use an Intel NUC (Skull Canyon) as my daily desktop driver. The kicker is I wanted to do some OpenCV with Nvidia and run the NUC with an eGPU on Linux. I've been doing it for years and it works surprisingly well. It's gotten even better with 'egpu-switcher' [0].

[0] https://github.com/hertg/egpu-switcher

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Re:Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak by acomjean on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:41AM (#24638588)

I’m using Pop!Os (preinstalled) with a sys76 laptop. Works great (can even game) battery life is terrible (though it looks fantastic and can drive a 32 inch high dpi external)

I can switch to built in Intel video for better battery but it requires a reboot. I see this as a stopgap. My home machine has an amd video.

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Re:Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak by Shared404 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:46AM (#24639249)

It's definitely sub-optimal needing to reboot.

I only need the NVIDIA graphics every so often on my laptop though, so it's fine for me.

On desktop I've had no issues.

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Re:Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak by cHaOs667 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:18AM (#24638418)

This is also the distro my employees are using.

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