A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
Nvidia wins unless some other company starts selling cheaper, faster, more efficient matrix multiplication machines.
I’ve read some articles about radically different inference architectures that may tilt the scales, but I know this is wishful thinking because I really would like Nvidia to fail badly.
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I’m sure it stings to have Steam take a 30% cut (or whatever it is currently). I also think that developers have not fully factored the costs of keeping their own distribution infrastructure. They are free to do it, why don’t they? There are other platforms out there, why pick on Steam?
Qualcomm wants a piece of Nvidia’s server market pie.
I expect the “support” is to ship some binary blobs in a open source wrapper at most, like Nvidia does.
Use whatever feels comfortable. Both are fine. People are complaining about micro annoyances that should not really affect you at first.
When you get comfortable with Linux, you’ll also get to pick sides in micro battles like KDE vs Gnome, vi vs emacs, systemd vs sysv, flatpak vs snap and all the other wonderful my-side-is-better-than-yours fights.
I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.
Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.
It’s a really shitty superpower.
Sure, I’m going to start running my containers using WSL. Who knows what kind of wonderful surprises are in store in the network layer? How the environment parameter passing will be somewhat more brittle with funky new ways to break because of new characters you have to escape? I can’t wait to troubleshoot all of that, and spend countless hours on MS forums and meet fellow colleagues with similar issues. What fun.