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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by gshulegaard on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:23PM (#25794167)
Graphics switching remains somewhat painful in the Linux ecosystem. There are options but nothing that quite achieves the seamlessness of Windows or Mac solutions.

Did you get the System76 with PopOS? I was impressed with my last one with the desktop menu that allowed graphics switching (albeit after a restart).

https://support.system76.com/articles/graphics-switch-pop/

Which I think is just a wrapper around the nvidia drivers, but at least I didn't have to install it myself and the menu location is a tad more convenient.

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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by Osiris on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:43PM (#25797539)
yeah the restart is the problem, it adds a lot of overhead if I'm just running to a meeting or something. There is a Prime option but you can only use external monitors in standard landscape and I use mine in portrait.
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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by gshulegaard on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:09PM (#25798863)
Ah yeah, I have similar feelings.

BumbleBee was promising at one time:

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/FAQ

But seems kind of dead now.

https://www.bumblebee-project.org/

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