kryton9
11-05-2012, 04:01
I've am having a blast trying out many linux distros these passed few days.
My main gaming notebook with Windows 7 has a usb 3.0 port. I bought a usb 3.0 stick and have been using that to try out the different distros. USB 3 is very fast and makes it very feasible to run linux completely off of it. I install the install linux distro iso onto a usb 2.0 thumbdrive and from that do an installation onto the usb 3.0 drive. Making sure to put the boot loader on the usb 3 drive.
Anyways, I have had no luck in getting opengl or any of the distros to see my nvidia card. Then last night after so many days it hit me that this notebook had optimus in it. This allows intel graphics when non intensive graphics are not needed and only uses the nvidia for the intensive stuff.
This lead me to a project named Bumblebee and it solved all my problems.
Now I am in the process of settling on which distro to use.
Since my last playing with linux, it seems the world has changed with Unity for Ubuntu and gnome 3 for other distros.
I liked the old gnome classic as they call it and going for that.
Anyways if you have optimus and want to try linux with opengl here is the page that showed me how:
http://ubuntuportal.com/bumblebee-3-0-tumblewed-nvidia-optimus-gpu-switching-for-linux-has-been-released-how-to-install-bumblebee-3-0-on-ubuntu/
My main gaming notebook with Windows 7 has a usb 3.0 port. I bought a usb 3.0 stick and have been using that to try out the different distros. USB 3 is very fast and makes it very feasible to run linux completely off of it. I install the install linux distro iso onto a usb 2.0 thumbdrive and from that do an installation onto the usb 3.0 drive. Making sure to put the boot loader on the usb 3 drive.
Anyways, I have had no luck in getting opengl or any of the distros to see my nvidia card. Then last night after so many days it hit me that this notebook had optimus in it. This allows intel graphics when non intensive graphics are not needed and only uses the nvidia for the intensive stuff.
This lead me to a project named Bumblebee and it solved all my problems.
Now I am in the process of settling on which distro to use.
Since my last playing with linux, it seems the world has changed with Unity for Ubuntu and gnome 3 for other distros.
I liked the old gnome classic as they call it and going for that.
Anyways if you have optimus and want to try linux with opengl here is the page that showed me how:
http://ubuntuportal.com/bumblebee-3-0-tumblewed-nvidia-optimus-gpu-switching-for-linux-has-been-released-how-to-install-bumblebee-3-0-on-ubuntu/