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Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn't. It's that simple.

Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.

Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, "Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work."

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was that way for the longest time. I was more than content with my 4 core 8 thread 4th Gen. i7 laptop. I only upgraded to an 11th Gen. i9 system because I wanted to play some games on the go.

But after I upgraded to that system I started to do so much more, and all at once. Mostly because I actually could, and the old system would cry in pain long before then. But Mid last year I finally broke and bought a 13th Gen. i9 system to replace it and man do I flog the shit out of this computer. Just having the spare power lying around made me want to do more and more with it.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My phone has been my primary computing device for several years now, and so I hardly ever use my laptop anyway. So it honestly doesn't make a whole lot of sense for me to spend a ton of money on it.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How the hell do you do spreadsheets on a phone?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Personally, I don't do spreadsheets, or I do them incredibly rarely, but obviously for that, you need a bigger screen. And I do have a laptop. I just don't use it all that often. My phone is my primary computing device. My phone is not my only computing device.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you do for fun if you don't do spreadsheets???

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Certainly not spreadsheets. If that's what you do for fun, you need to reevaluate your life.

[–] Narauko@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They must be talking about Eve Online (spreadsheets in space), it's the only logical explanation.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Okay, I've never played it.