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> The experience of using Nvidia on Linux is just beyond terrible, and it’s just such a high price to pay for CUDA when I just want to get work done. I don't s

> The experience of using Nvidia on Linux is just beyond terrible, and it’s just such a high price to pay for CUDA when I just want to get work done. I don't see what's hard about "sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-525", but YMMV I guess. > I suppose if I were doing lots of ML projects at home, maybe the pain would be justified, but I’m not doing ML at home. I couldn't give the tiniest amount of a shit about ML. It's not something I'll ever use. You need GPU acceleration for video editing, and at present NVidia is the only game in town for that.

klodolph 4y ago
> I don't see what's hard about "sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-525", but YMMV I guess. Seems like a pretty dismissive way to phrase it. It sounds wonderful, that the experience is like that for you, but it’s not the experience for me. I don’t know what is different about your setup, but I have experienced severe issues on three different Linux distributions, using different Nvidia cards, either at home or in the cloud. When I’ve searched for information about it, I’ve come across recent comments of people experiencing the same issues, so I can only guess that these issues are common enough. Of course I know that these issues are not universal, because I sometimes encounter people who don’t have any problems with Nvidia on Linux (some combination of blessed distros, the right hardware, good luck with timing upgrades, I don’t know—I just know that I’ve run into problems with Nvidia+Linux consistently enough that I’m going to avoid it when reasonable, I’m not going to keep trying different things until it works, that sounds like a massive time sink). I just use a Mac for video editing because it always works. I’m aware that lots of people get work done with Nvidia hardware on Linux, but lots of people also have IT departments fixing these issues for them and managing software updates + hardware configurations. I don’t have that.

klodolph 4y ago

> I don't see what's hard about "sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-525", but YMMV I guess. Seems like a pretty dismissive way to phrase it. It sounds wonderful, that the experience is like that for you, but it’s not the experience for me. I don’t know what is different about your setup, but I have experienced severe issues on three different Linux distributions, using different Nvidia cards, either at home or in the cloud. When I’ve searched for information about it, I’ve come across recent comments of people experiencing the same issues, so I can only guess that these issues are common enough. Of course I know that these issues are not universal, because I sometimes encounter people who don’t have any problems with Nvidia on Linux (some combination of blessed distros, the right hardware, good luck with timing upgrades, I don’t know—I just know that I’ve run into problems with Nvidia+Linux consistently enough that I’m going to avoid it when reasonable, I’m not going to keep trying different things until it works, that sounds like a massive time sink). I just use a Mac for video editing because it always works. I’m aware that lots of people get work done with Nvidia hardware on Linux, but lots of people also have IT departments fixing these issues for them and managing software updates + hardware configurations. I don’t have that.