GTX 770M with RHEL 6.4

I’m not sure how polished RedHat’s support is towards out-of-box working Optimus cards – probably not much so as you’ve found out.

Bumblebee will let you use your nvidia graphics card, but you’d first want to uninstall any NVIDIA drivers, as bumblebee will install those and configure itself with them. That being said, sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to get working, especially on bleeding edge hardware.

I believe Optimus cards should be supported natively on Ubuntu 12.04.3, as it installs nvidia-prime and the nvidia drivers along side it. The benefits of that is no need to do the ‘optirun’ syntax everytime you want to run a GPU-enabled app. The disadvantage is your graphics card would be on all the time, cutting down on battery life.

I personally run Ubuntu 13.10 and I configured Bumblebee from the repositories and upgraded to a 3.12-rc kernel to get Bumblebee working and patched NVIDIA drivers to work with the new kernel. With bumblebee, you do have power management working so your battery life would be better.