It has been years since I had to go in the xorg.conf file, that was the main reason I switched from debian to ubuntu. That is the only feature I wish of any Ubuntu release. Can someone tell me if it has now been implemented ? From the release notes, they don't seem to mention it.
It's not like notebooks equipped with Intel graphics are more expensive or hard to find. Or that it would be an insane amount of work to provide functional (even if not fully-functional) Linux drivers for their product lines.
You must have a pretty high general satisfaction for how your life is going.
But really, the horizontal axis in my case would be labeled "perceived maturity of the linux distribution I am using"
When the usage of the small one is two high, the big one is switched on and used. By default, it is switched off and nvidia does not provide a way to switch it on on linux and stated they would not support it under linux.
I was under the impression that nvidia was the most linux-friendly GPU manufacturer and bought one because of that. I should have looked more into details but I was in a kind of hurry.
I have noticed that 2D does look uglier in places - like modal popups - that are not at all in keep with the rest of the interface. Which reminds me of the kde shutdown window - which is also fugly.
(If you haven't looked into it, I thought bumblebee was a great hack! As I understand it, it uses the nvidia card for rendering whatever apps you tell it too in a separate X instance -- using the "optirun" command, it doesn't happen automatically automatically -- then uses virtualGL to display the results on your desktop)