An unfortunate huge one is any way to interact w/ Intel Optimus. I can't be the ...

pxc · on Aug 5, 2022

Bumblebee is well-supported in NixOS. My last mobile NVIDIA hardware has died, but I used it Bumblebee on NixOS for years.

hailwren · on Aug 5, 2022

Oh, this is great info. Thank you. I use optimus-manager and it's 100% not, so I thought I was just SoL.

pxc · on Aug 5, 2022

It'll probably still be a bit of a pain to work out. I hate getting NVIDIA Optimus stuff working on a laptop for the first time, lol

You might want to consult the unofficial wiki: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

(You probably want PRIME in offload mode rather than Bumblebee, which wasn't available when I set up my old NVIDIA system.)

whateveracct · on Aug 5, 2022

PRIME offload + the nvidia-offload script works great for me.

sync mode actually stopped working for me, but that's not a big deal since the offloading works so well. I always use my GPU when I need it.