3 ms·

> I'm aware that other OSes exist, but I happen to hate Windows least on the whole :/ Have you given Linux a try? Unless you have an Nvidia card or an Adobe wo

> I'm aware that other OSes exist, but I happen to hate Windows least on the whole :/ Have you given Linux a try? Unless you have an Nvidia card or an Adobe workflow; it is usually good. The Nvidia issue may go away in a year.

causal 2y ago
What do you mean about NVIDIA? I find their drivers have become pretty good. Especially so if you're using them with containers.
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
- csdreamer7 2y ago
  > What do you mean about NVIDIA? I find their drivers have become pretty good. Especially so if you're using them with containers. Have they? What GPU? Are you using the new open source kernel driver? Wayland or X?
pixelpoet 2y ago
Yeah, a few times. Got burned very early on installing Slackware from about 10 billion stiffie disks, and have kept up reasonable effort to be a responsible nerd and keep trying it, but every time there's some roadblock; when I was younger gaming was one example, being an MSVC dev has been a constant throughout, and yeah the ordeal with drivers is also more or less a constant. I'm an OpenCL guy, not even using CUDA, and have had a decent enough experience with AMD's drivers, but that wasn't enough. I still think MSVC, again with all its flaws, is the best C++ IDE (I've similarly tried them all, repeatedly over decades).
- csdreamer7 2y ago
  > Yeah, a few times. Got burned very early on installing Slackware from about 10 billion stiffie disks Please do not use Slackware. With respect to Slackware, almost no one uses it because it is very old school. If I remember correctly you have to use a 3rd party tool to even download updates or packages. It took years for the maintainer to actually have a release. Please use a modern developer distro that has a regular release cycle and modern tools. Fedora or Ubuntu. If you need to use Nvidia, go with Ubuntu. Also when did you use it? Linux distros haven't used floppy disks in so long. > I'm an OpenCL guy, not even using CUDA, and have had a decent enough experience with AMD's drivers That is not my field, but Fedora added the ROCm packages in 40. You can install those and give it a try. > I still think MSVC, again with all its flaws, is the best C++ IDE (I've similarly tried them all, repeatedly over decades). I still remember during my time in college (where they required us to use Visual C++) a friend and I were playing with the latest C++ features. We had this very difficult runtime bug. I later found notes in the news that Microsoft's implementation of C++ at the time was incomplete. Tried it in GCC-worked out of the box.

causal 2y ago

What do you mean about NVIDIA? I find their drivers have become pretty good. Especially so if you're using them with containers.

deleted 2y ago
[deleted]
csdreamer7 2y ago
> What do you mean about NVIDIA? I find their drivers have become pretty good. Especially so if you're using them with containers. Have they? What GPU? Are you using the new open source kernel driver? Wayland or X?

pixelpoet 2y ago

Yeah, a few times. Got burned very early on installing Slackware from about 10 billion stiffie disks, and have kept up reasonable effort to be a responsible nerd and keep trying it, but every time there's some roadblock; when I was younger gaming was one example, being an MSVC dev has been a constant throughout, and yeah the ordeal with drivers is also more or less a constant. I'm an OpenCL guy, not even using CUDA, and have had a decent enough experience with AMD's drivers, but that wasn't enough. I still think MSVC, again with all its flaws, is the best C++ IDE (I've similarly tried them all, repeatedly over decades).

csdreamer7 2y ago
> Yeah, a few times. Got burned very early on installing Slackware from about 10 billion stiffie disks Please do not use Slackware. With respect to Slackware, almost no one uses it because it is very old school. If I remember correctly you have to use a 3rd party tool to even download updates or packages. It took years for the maintainer to actually have a release. Please use a modern developer distro that has a regular release cycle and modern tools. Fedora or Ubuntu. If you need to use Nvidia, go with Ubuntu. Also when did you use it? Linux distros haven't used floppy disks in so long. > I'm an OpenCL guy, not even using CUDA, and have had a decent enough experience with AMD's drivers That is not my field, but Fedora added the ROCm packages in 40. You can install those and give it a try. > I still think MSVC, again with all its flaws, is the best C++ IDE (I've similarly tried them all, repeatedly over decades). I still remember during my time in college (where they required us to use Visual C++) a friend and I were playing with the latest C++ features. We had this very difficult runtime bug. I later found notes in the news that Microsoft's implementation of C++ at the time was incomplete. Tried it in GCC-worked out of the box.