Let’s talk about #Linux on the desktop, #Gnome and the state of #Wayland in 2024.

  • Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Machine learning pays my bills, and I never had a choice on my graphics card brand. To be sure, I wanted an AMD for the open source drivers, but CUDA remains essential to me. RocM support from AMD is a joke, and isn’t anywhere close to an alternative. Reseachers release code that only runs on CUDA for a good reason. To say that I don’t get to complain is going too far

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      9 months ago

      Exactly. You’d think with the two things they’re really competitive on being raw flops and memory, they’d be a viable option for ML and scientific compute, but they’re just such a pain to work with that they’re pretty much irrelevant.

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      9 months ago

      That’s true, but it also wasn’t fair to be a Wayland detractor then.

      Nvidia needed to do stuff to make that combination viable, and their delay in doing so wasn’t anyone’s fault but Nvidia’s