Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
by sarthakjshetty on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:54AM
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> Get yourself a laptop with an nvidia card and Ubuntu. Even today it's a garbage experience that takes up hours/days of debugging to get right, and then it's still way worse than the mac/windows experience.
This. Writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu with an nvidia card and I can feel my body tense up just reading it.
I remember several nights in college just struggling to get the drivers to work and finding the right cuda spec from the repository, after combing through multiple sources.
It's still a nightmare and I always dread that the StackOverflow and Ask Ubuntu posts in the bookmarks folder that I've reserved for this arduous process will be obsolete when the GPU card crashes again for the umteenth time.
This. Writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu with an nvidia card and I can feel my body tense up just reading it.
I remember several nights in college just struggling to get the drivers to work and finding the right cuda spec from the repository, after combing through multiple sources.
It's still a nightmare and I always dread that the StackOverflow and Ask Ubuntu posts in the bookmarks folder that I've reserved for this arduous process will be obsolete when the GPU card crashes again for the umteenth time.