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Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn't. It's that simple.

Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.

Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, "Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Personally, I don't do spreadsheets, or I do them incredibly rarely, but obviously for that, you need a bigger screen. And I do have a laptop. I just don't use it all that often. My phone is my primary computing device. My phone is not my only computing device.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What do you do for fun if you don't do spreadsheets???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Certainly not spreadsheets. If that's what you do for fun, you need to reevaluate your life.

[–] Narauko 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They must be talking about Eve Online (spreadsheets in space), it's the only logical explanation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Okay, I've never played it.

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