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If you don’t care to battery and want to use NVIDIA card fulltime, check this post.

Install Bumblebee and NVIDIA driver

Add RPMFusion repositories

$ sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Enable the copr chenxiaolong/bumblebee to get Bumblebee

$ sudo dnf copr enable chenxiaolong/bumblebee

Install packages

$ sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia acpi akmod-bbswitch bumblebee primus

Add your user to the bumblebee group

$ sudo gpasswd -a $USER bumblebee

Enable service bumblebeed on boot and disable nvidia-fallback

$ sudo systemctl enable bumblebeed
$ sudo systemctl mask nvidia-fallback

Reboot.

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Check if NVIDIA is correctly loaded with Bumblebee

$ primusrun glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
...

Usage

Run from command

Add primusrun before the command.

$ primusrun <command>

# For example
$ primusrun glxgears

Desktop entry

Open .desktop file of application you want to start with the discrete card. It is often put in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications.
Find the line start with Exec= and add primusrun before its command.
Ex:
```
...
Exec=primusrun blender
...
```

Steam game

From the Library page, right click on game > Properties > SET LAUNCH OPTIONS…
Specify primusrun %command% for the command line and save it.

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Reference: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/bumblebee/

Set up Bumblebee for NVIDIA Optimus on Fedora

Install Bumblebee and NVIDIA driver

Usage

Run from command

Desktop entry

Steam game

See also