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by aries1980 2490 days ago
The nVidia Optimus drivers are still unusable on Linux. This makes the nVidia card in the laptop a dead weight.
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AMD laptops with Vega are becoming more available [0]. I'd guess, with all the positive media push around AMD, we're going to see a lot of new AMD laptops hit the market later this year into early next. I mean Intel's latest NUC even has AMD Vega in it. NVidia shot themselves in the foot with regard to a horrid Linux driver experience. In general it's fine for desktop systems but when you're forced to log out of a session to do a driver context switch on a laptop it gets old fast.

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...