I can not select the “DEFAULT GPU” in this HP-ENVY17 laptop BIOS. Then the NVIDIA driver is not used by most of the applications in this MXLINUX21. In case of LinuxMint21 the “Prime-select” can make the applications to better see the NVIDIA driver, but this case the NVIDIA is overheating and the l…

Can not select the "default GPU" in MXLinux

generix March 23, 2022, 9:34am 6

A different notebook model won’t fix anything if you don’t understand how hybrid graphics systems and PRIME work.

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