While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you’d expect, there are things that may not be covered.
For example:
Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.
How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?
Good bot.
Serious question: you’d use that for your daily driver?
Still better than no update.
And with the land they just discovered, they’d expand their settlements.
I guess the whole genocide thing is unintended, huh?
“Whooops, we accidentally wiped out the whole population of this land. Whadya know, nobody lives here now. Somebody should definitely claim it!”
Straight to jail! Right away!
Could be things to execute. They may run a shell script (source it if they don’t have exec permission), but they won’t have all the previleged commands (definitely no dd)
I currently have a Thinkpad W530 with a Quadro K2000M. Because I have coreboot as its firmware, I am able to run completely on the discrete GPU. So far I’ve been doing great.
I’ve looked on the feature matrix of the nouveau support and my GPU (Kepler) happens to have all the features checked-off, with the exception of dynamic power management (mostly WIP).
Right now, I’m running KDE wayland with the nouveau driver with no issue.
On the other hand, I’ve tried having the hybrid GPU and it sucks.
How the mighty has fallen.
Don’t get me started.
There are good reasons why I have personal “production system” to do my work with.
Yes, I did set the BIOS GPU config to “discrete only” and now it works.
I probably should!
Crazy, rite??
You should be thankful it’s cooked.
If it’s undercooked? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
I’m currently using LMDE on Thinkpad W530 for work. Pretty much stationary, with second monitor and all. I got a more mobile X230 with 9 cell battery (same OS) for when I need to be on the move.
That i7 on the W540 would be very useful if you want to have good compilation time for your system.
Why is it in Java??
Did the magic smoke come out?
If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.
If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.