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I'm was sticking to ubuntu because 1. NVidia seem to love debian/ubuntu more that other distros, and in general I don't want to waste much time with setting up
by galkk 3y ago
I'm was sticking to ubuntu because
1. NVidia seem to love debian/ubuntu more that other distros, and in general I don't want to waste much time with setting up machine learning env/CUDA on my machines
2. work has debian based distro, so using same tool/mindset is convenient
but I really want to get rid of it because of snaps and overall attitute (previous controversies with their unity desktop manager, ads in it etc). I kind of didn't cared much then as I switched to Mint linux (even that had different distro names to annoy when need to set nvidia) and went back then ubuntu + i3. Right now it seems it's time to ditch ubuntu completely.
- belval 3y agoAnecdotal but I've had a lot less cuda/nvidia driver breaking moments with Arch than Ubuntu.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoEnabling proprietary nvidia drivers on NixOS: services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ]; Here's how you'd create a development environment that explicitly uses CUDA: { outputs = { self, nixpkgs }: let pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit x86_64-linux; config.allowUnfree = true; config.cudaSupport = true; }; in { # Environment }; }; } I've never had NixOS break doing just about anything, including nvidia stuff.
- KronisLV 3y ago> but I really want to get rid of it because of snaps If you want something on the desktop that is close enough to Ubuntu but without the snaps, you might want to have a look at Linux Mint: https://linuxmint.com/ https://linuxmint.com/ Or some might also just use Debian with a desktop environment installed, there's not too many reasons to not do that.