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Booting Linux on Mac with internal GPU

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 1 down vote favorite I own a early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" (macOS Sierra). Some weeks ago, my discrete GPU (AMD Radeon) kinda broke (as soon as the Mac had to calculate something, the screen got distorted). Because of that, I downloaded gfxCardStatus, which let me manually switch to the internal grpahics card (wich works well now). Now, i want to install Ubuntu Elementary (dual boot) which is not possible with the acutal GPU. Is there any possibility to change the default graphics card in the EFI/BIOS to always boot with the Intel HD chip? linux ubuntu intel-graphics amd-graphics graphic-card share | improve this question asked Sep 24 '17 at 19:47 Alexander Schoch 9 6 There was a product recall for this sort of issue recently; I got a brand new screen for free for my similarly aged 17" MacBook Pro as a result. Worth checking (log in to the service part of the apple support website) if t...

Will the inherited environment variables be inherited as environment variables or as shell variables?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 1 down vote favorite Say my bash shell have the following environment variable: export a="Hello World" If I executed a process from the bash shell, the a environment variable will be inherited by this child process. My question is: will a be inherited by the child process as an environment variable or as a shell variable, that is, will a in the child process be exported? linux environment-variables share | improve this question asked Sep 24 '17 at 19:53 user7681202 237 4 14 add a comment  |  up vote 1 down vote favorite Say my bash shell have the following environment variable: export a="Hello World" If I executed a process from the bash shell, the a environment variable will be inherited by this child process. My question is: will a be inherited by the child process as an environment variable or as a shell variable, that is, will a in the child process b...