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I’ve had decent experience with nobara with a 2080. I had a couple hiccups early, and had to reinstall basically right away, but after that it’s been solid.

Wow that’s hilariously idiotic.

I’m not sure what you think is contradicting me. I put “free” in quotes. But they’re not making meaningful additional license purchases by changing the name from 10 to 11 with how much they’re begging people to upgrade. And Mac straight up makes zero from licensing fees, so again, a new name doesn’t mean anything. They abandon hardware with new versions when enough core functions need hardware features to work properly, which happens regardless of what they call it.

Enterprise pays plenty for Windows, but those licenses are all subscription based so new versions don’t mean anything there either.

Pay what?

Mac hasn’t charged for an OS in ages, and Windows has given “free upgrades” for several version because they’re stealing more data and want people to switch.

They’ve been designed for nvidia because cuda is better.

And because nvidia has been pushing hardware features needed for AI way before AMD has even considered it for ages.

They don’t need to make it impossible to do anything else. They just need to make their removedty proprietary solution the lowest friction.

It could just be that windows is obnoxious and likes to do its best to break removed, and they don’t want to deal with helping people figure out how to repair it in limited dev time.

Because they want control.

It’s disgusting.

It should be illegal to require any personal information unless you can prove that it’s literally impossible to provide your service without it, and always illegal to share that information with anyone (but a payment provider exclusively for verification purposes) for any reason.

Not everyone values the same things you do. Flatpaks aren’t the cause of the fact that different applications don’t function correctly with different versions of libraries; they’re just the solution.

Flatpak is better for normal people. It’s better for most advanced users who don’t want to micromanage compatibility issues. And it really doesn’t have an impact on people who do want to micromanage because all your alternative ways to install software are still there.

If you’re actually expecting people to transition without asking for help on a regular basis, you don’t know people.

You just made yourself their IT guy for life.

I think it’s a mixed bag. Some of the friction is just because people are used to the stupid ways Windows does stuff.

But there’s other stuff like needing to manually change some downloaded files to have permission to execute that it makes sense for casual users to find confusing.

You may wish to pick a distro that makes a point of nvidia compatibility.

I use nobara, who have a few options in the welcome script specifically to improve compatibility with nvidia. I’ve specifically heard popOS mentioned several times as one people have liked with nvidia as well.

Some only ship with or distribute alternative open source nvidia drivers that tank performance.

Try it?

I haven’t really needed to virtualize anything lately, but my understanding is that some of the options on Linux are pretty light weight. Frpm discussion I’ve seen, I think distrobox could resolve the issue with minimal overhead if you have issues natively, though I haven’t personally experimented with it or its limitations.

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.

No, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible.

A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.

What’s the use case where storage is at enough of a premium to matter? None of this is targeting a server where you’re getting silly with optimizing storage, and even the smallest storage on most consumer facing hardware is filled by media one way or another. It straight up doesn’t matter to a reasonable end user. Storage is less than dirt cheap.

The actual blog post

It makes it clear that they’re guidelines and not requirements. I’m not sure how styling is inappropriate.

And the title and description don’t mention his use case anywhere.