CUDA is actually pretty cool, especially in the early days when there was nothing like it. And Intel/AMD attempts at alternatives have been as mixed as their corporate dysfunction.

And Nvidia has long has a focus on other spaces, like VR, AR, dataset generation, robotics, “virtual worlds” and such. If every single LLM thing disappeared overnight in a puff of smoke, they’d be fine; a lot of their efforts would transition to other spaces.

Not that I’m an apologist for them being total jerks, but I don’t want to act like CUDA isn’t useful, either.

Yeah I mean you are preaching to the choir there. I picked up a used 3090 because rocm on the 7900 was in such a poor state.

That being said, much of what you describe is just software obstinacy. AMD (for example) has had hardware encoding since early 2012, with the 7970. Intel quicksync has long been a standard on laptops. It’s just a few stupid propriety bits that never bothered to support it.

CUDA is indeed extremely entrenched in some areas, like anything involving PyTorch or Blender’s engines. But there’s no reason (say) Plex shouldn’t support AMD, or older editing programs that use OpenGL anyway.

Well, same for me TBH. I’d buy a huge Battlemage card before you could blink, but the current cards aren’t really faster than an ancient 3090.

But most people I see online want something more affordable, right in the 9000 series or Arc range, not a 384-bit GPU.

Fact is, Nvidia has the vast majority of market share: https://www.techpowerup.com/337775/nvidia-grabs-market-share-amd-loses-ground-and-intel-disappears-in-latest-dgpu-update

It’s inexplicable to me. Why are folks ignoring Battlemage and AMD 9000 series when they’re so good?

Alas, for whatever reason they aren’t even picking existing alternatives to Nvidia, so Nvidia suddenly becoming unavailable would be a huge event.

AFAIK, the H100 and up (Nvidia’s bestselling data center GPUs) can technically game, but they’re missing so many ROPs that they’re really bad at it. There will be no repurposing all those AI datacenters for cloud gaming farms.

On desktop Linux, between Helium (relatively new and lightweight, comes with full UBO), Cromite (more hardcore antifingerprinting), and Firefox, I’m quite satisfied.

Another is to use ublacklist (if you aren’t already using ublock origin for some inexplicable reason) and add in AI/SEO slop blacklists. They will be filtered out of search.

Oh, and use the wiki redirect extension.

It doesn’t fix everything, but it’s a massive improvement for when the information you need is pretty recent.

Also, FYI the Kagi browser is great.

Well, the next question is “what do you do when you drive?” Cars and trucks have wildly different roles they’re good at.

So basically, what do you want your computer to be good at doing? That dictates your hardware purchase and the OS you will end up using.

If you have a desktop/laptop, you run Linux.

If you have a Mac, you run OSX.

Im not sure where you’re going with this OP, unless you’re looking for purchasing advice. It’s kinda like asking if a car or truck tire is better, with the answer being “well, do you have a car or a truck?”

Neat! Bookmarking that, thanks.

I’m pretty sure its a troll fishing for engagement. Look at their avatar:

Seems kinda… antisemetic? Or trollish.

Mint.

You’re already familiar with it, so it will just be the least time invested doing stuff.

If you’re trying to squeeze out performance/efficiency, you can load CachyOS and play with it. As an example, it has a scheduler (lavd) specifically designed to minimize idle power use, and another one (tickless) specifically optimized for docker containers/VMs. It has easy access to optimized Java to make modded Minecraft faster. Stuff like that. But ask yourself if you want to spend time messing with that.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

They can’t react in 2026 unless they already have something in the pipe, and they don’t (yet) make their own RAM.

…That being said, it could be a good year for big APUs, which use system RAM you already have to have.

I just let KDE handle it. I think… it was a long time ago. I’ll turn on my PC and check my fstab in a sec.

But yeah. I’d recommend a fresh install, with the philosophy of “don’t mess with the defaults unless it isn’t working, or you have a very good reason.” As not only are CachyOS defaults pretty good, but they’re set up in a way so the system will maintain itself through updates.

It’s (ironically) very different than my experience with Ubuntu, where I had to manually maintain a bunch of stuff and fight the system packages.

I think I may have installed ntfs-3g before the reboot

Isn’t this the legacy driver? Why do you need it?

…Respectfully, it feels like you’re falling into the classic Arch trap of “messing with too much stuff.”

I mount a whole bunch of NTFS Sata partitions at boot, on CachyOS, and they don’t need a password or FUSE driver package or anything. It just works out of the box. The only thing I chose to mess with was adding a single mount flag in fstab, and only so it plays with Windows permissions better.

https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext

It’ll be interesting to see how Discord enshittifies.

It’s the default destination for the niche-interest “cozy web,” and they could go down several paths.

• For LLM hosting, ik_llama.cpp. You can really gigantic models at acceptable speeds with its hybrid CPU/GPU focus, at higher quality/speed than mainline llama.cpp, and it has several built in UIs.

• LanguageTool, for self run grammar/spelling/style checking.

Keep an eye on Open Web UI. I’ve heard rumblings that it’s starting to enshittify.