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This is something that needs to be highlighted over and over again: Don't buy nvidia if there's ever a chance of running anything but Windows.
Mmh. If you like Machine Learning / AI / Stable Diffusion you're kinda screwed. Hope AMD ups their game regarding this.
IDK, I used to have a dedicated software for playing with CUDA. Most of the image-specific AI stuff from the internet require 8 GB of VRAM or more, though.
Nowadays, I don't feel the need for GPU-accelerated computing, though. If I needed, I would write Vulkan compute shaders for that thing.
Yeah. Lots of frameworks are optimized for CUDA (Nvidia). ROCm (AMD) and Intel's efforts are a niche. Hence often cumbersome to set up and get all the performance out of it. Nvidia invests orders of magnitude more into AI. I believe they consider this to be the more profitable market in the future.
Not really though, more like if you need open source drivers. Nvidia cards with the proprietary driver work great on OSes like Illumos (solaris) or FreeBSD, Linux on X11 where no other card works properly.
I’m not sure I would say that Nvidia works “great”. I’ve had numerous issues over the years trying to get my laptop with an Nvidia card set up and working just right. I’d say it’s more like Nvidia “can” work in Linux.
I just bought a new laptop with AMD graphics, and so far the difference is night and day. It just works.
I would agree with this, I use Nvidia cards for professional work on Linux and I've never had a problem. Yeah there's some upfront work configuring the drivers, but I've never had it take more than an hour to setup.
I see this sentiment often but like, tuxedo, system76, kubuntu focus, are all selling laptops with Nvidia gpus, what's the deal? What's your take on that
Pretty much the reason I'm not interested in buying their stuff.
I get it as workstation option for very specific purposes - but for 5 years or so you're just better off with an AMD card.
Before that things sucked a bit if you needed 3d performance - I just stopped gaming after I moved off my last voodoo card as I don't support companies with that kind of behaviour.
System76 also sell full-AMD builds. Friend of mine got the Pangolin which has an AMD CPU with integrated graphics. No it's not gonna thrash through everything but it works for him.
I'm aware of that - but I think when you're marketing as Linux / open source friendly you shouldn't be selling those systems.
I might get interested if they ever have a modern AMD system with proper coreboot support - but until then they don't do anything special.