PumpkinEscobar

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[–] PumpkinEscobar 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Been 100% linux for like 6-9 months now, these stories make me thankful for finally making the switch.

I've tried to make the switch 3-4 times in the past and was stopped by 2 main things:

  • Drivers / Laptops were tough to get set up
  • Gaming

The experience was so much better this time and I really have no regrets. I don't imagine I'll ever run Windows again outside of a VM

[–] PumpkinEscobar 2 points 8 months ago

Nah. There are some nvidia issues with wayland (that are starting to get cleared up), and nvidia's drivers not being open-source rubs some people the wrong way, but getting nvidia and cuda up and running on linux is pretty easy/reliable in my experience.

WSL is a bit different but there are steps to get that up and running too.

[–] PumpkinEscobar 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agree with others, this guide is a bit more work than you probably need. I don't really run windows much anymore but I did have an easier time with WSL like the other poster mentioned.

And just to check, are you planning on fine-tuning a model? If so then the whole anaconda / miniconda, pytorch, etc... path makes sense.

But if you're not fine-tuning and you just want to run a model locally, I'd suggest ollama. If you want a UI on top of it, open-webui is great.

[–] PumpkinEscobar 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hopefully you’re only forwarding the minimal set of network ports and not all ports/traffic? If so then you’re good, like someone else said if you’ve got a router and it’s forwarding selected traffic then no need for anything else

[–] PumpkinEscobar 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tons of remote jobs out there, probably a higher percentage for startup jobs. Most remote places will have people in different time zones and some sort of core hours they expect people to be in, but having some discussion you’ll probably be able to find one that’s accommodating.

One good site to start looking:

https://wellfound.com/remote

Good luck

[–] PumpkinEscobar 4 points 8 months ago

Drop.com, Amazon, AliExpress, BangGood

[–] PumpkinEscobar 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I’d definitely try just booting windows as is. Windows should detect change in hardware and simply pick the right drivers for the new system / hardware. If you go into device manager you can enable “show all devices”which will show the old hardware, you can remove those devices if you want but even that isn’t necessary/required

[–] PumpkinEscobar 14 points 8 months ago

Bets on what percentage of users on that site have that exact regex string as their password? 10%?

Comedy answer: this is one of those sites that doesn't let 2 people use the same password so it's only 1 person

[–] PumpkinEscobar 2 points 8 months ago

Elon “Nick Cannon” Musk

[–] PumpkinEscobar 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are qemu / qemu user static and fex the main/active two these days?

[–] PumpkinEscobar 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Seems like arch gets KDE into stable within a couple days of release generally. Or there’s the kde-unstable repo that already has it

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