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Optimus was my first huge disappointment for me from NVidia. When I used Linux, I preferred NVidia over ATI, because it worked out of the box with the official NVidia driver. This all changed when I bought a laptop with NVidia Optimus, it didn't work at all. If NVidia had provided a proprietary driver, that would have been fine, but they simply ignored it, which was the "fuck you" to the consumers who wanted to use Linux on their laptops which had NVidia Optimus.

NVidia, should just do what they did before: make things work for the [Linux] consumer. Just make a proprietary/open source/open core/semi open source driver that just works with Optimus hardware without having to hack stuff. It's 2012, video should just work.



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