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by vetinari 3517 days ago
Wayland is actually there; it has been shipping with Fedora for some time and for 25 (release in less than two weeks), it is going to be default.

There is still problem with switchable GPUs: namely those, where one GPU is using Mesa and the other is not (i.e. Nvidia). Those computers didn't disappear for the face of the Earth, people are still using it and expect it to work, even if there are never laptops available on the market. It is being worked on (https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/11/01/discrete-graphics-...).
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dogma1138 3517 days ago
Because of MESA, also nvidia tried to make Optimus work on Linux when it supported it couldn't.

Intel doesn't supports GPU switching on its MESA drivers it requires the proprietary one.

Get the prop nvidia and intel drivers and get nvidia prime and you are golden.

Same issue with AMD GPUs with intel CPUs especially the PowerXpress ones.

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vetinari 3516 days ago
Intel doesn't have a proprietary driver for GPUs for Linux.

They do have a binary firmware, for Broxton and newer, however that's a thing that runs on the GPU. It does not have anything with how Mesa or other OpenGL stack shares buffers and video output devices.

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dogma1138 3516 days ago
Sorry that's what I mean, in Ubuntu it's under the display driver, they call it microcode.
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