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When I was at Google (2014-2017) - The Linux (I think it was Ubuntu based) just worked. Granted it was mostly java/blaze/little r/js/go, no dedicated graphics c
by malkia 4y ago
When I was at Google (2014-2017) - The Linux (I think it was Ubuntu based) just worked. Granted it was mostly java/blaze/little r/js/go, no dedicated graphics chips us (I came there from gamedev background). It was working just fine, and we had option to use Cinnamon or something else.
The only thing I remember is that it wasn't that easy (or maybe my memory does not serve me well) to "apt update" anything (and that makes sense). I think apt was going somehow through internal servers. All I remember is that "apt-file" wasn't working or was prevented from doing so.
Nonetheless - never had problem with the distro/whatever, and TBH never cared what linux is there - as compiler/everything else got somehow in, and you just carry on your work in Eclipse/CLion/JetBrains/Chrome/Firefox/etc.
- malkia 4y agoActually now that I think, I might've had NVIDIA card of sorts. But what I meant to say, I never needed/care what GPU I have (unlike before), so it must've worked fine somehow. Maybe I got once or twice the machine to crash, and it was all the time on.
- dgacmu 4y agoI had a Titan x in my workstation to around the same time at Google (deep learning). Everything generally worked but then after about two years I ran into a disk space problem that prevented apt stuff from working. But by that point a lot more had moved into desktops-in-the-cloud anyway.