Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the same time, what does it mean for your distribution to be fast? For example, Ubuntu 21.10 switched the default compression for packages to zstd, which […]
Yup, but that doesn’t change the fact the Linux experience is janky. I’m not willing to put down a couple hundred euros on a new GPU when this one works fine and just annoys me every so often.
Plus, all the good GPUs lack proper CUDA support or require messy workarounds like ROCm, which I can’t be bothered with to be honest. I’m hoping ROCm keeps improving at the rate it has when I eventually upgrade but for the stuff I run, Nvidia hardware is a much better deal with drivers that can be tolerated.
Let’s begin that Nvidia’s proprietary drivers is main issue
Yup, but that doesn’t change the fact the Linux experience is janky. I’m not willing to put down a couple hundred euros on a new GPU when this one works fine and just annoys me every so often.
Plus, all the good GPUs lack proper CUDA support or require messy workarounds like ROCm, which I can’t be bothered with to be honest. I’m hoping ROCm keeps improving at the rate it has when I eventually upgrade but for the stuff I run, Nvidia hardware is a much better deal with drivers that can be tolerated.