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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You get to complain to Nvidia, not Linux developers and maintainers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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