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Recently I introduced a friend of mine to linux, and recommended him the user friendly distribution ubuntu.
I did not had time to show him, how to configure his graphics card with switchable graphics(bumblebee with primus), because I had no time.
Today I saw him entering the command prime-select, to select between the integrated and the dedicated graphics card, and it worked! He used the driver provided by nvidia for ubuntu linux.
I am a little bit confused, because every single wiki page I ever visited stated, that switching cards with prime only works with the open-source noveau driver.
So today I am thinking of buying a new laptop with an nvidia gtx 960m graphics card and an haswell i7 cpu with integrated graphics, and I do not know, if the by arch linux provided proprietary driver can do the same (prime switching) on my laptop.
Does anyone know something about switching support in the nvidia driver?
Any help is welcome. Also the wiki page should be updated, if someone knows, that the driver has now built in support for switching between cards.
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