[Stable Update] 2020-12-30 - Kernels, KDE, Cinnamon, LibreOffice, Python 3.9, Mesa 20.3.1

[parekhnish]

I had an issue where, on an Optimus laptop running linux414 with bbswitch for nvidia-430xx, after the upgrade and switch to nvidia-455xx under the nvidia-intel-prime config, my default renderer was llvmpipe (which is a software renderer) instead of Mesa Intel(R).

I fixed it by

1. Ensuring that I only have the video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime and video-modesetting configs installed in mhwd, uninstalling others
2. Switching to linux54

You can read about the path to the fix here:

Llvmpipe is the default renderer?

Hello there. (System information at the end of this text) I recently applied the latest stable branch updates (Dec 31, 2020). I have an Optimus laptop (Nvidia + Intel), and I was using bbswitch before, with the hybrid-nvidia-430xx drivers. I followed all the steps and gotchas presented in the update. After the update, things seem to be working well, I can still use the NVidia GPU using prime-run, and there are no display issues. However, this output concerns me $ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL rende…