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?

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.”

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    193·
    14 hours ago

    Don’t forget those who made it happen. Nvidia was “forced” to integrate Linux into its ecosystem

    Nvidia has always been hostile to the Linux community or negligent to say the least

    1000043457

    • projectmoon@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      11 hours ago

      Don’t know about “always.” In recent years, like the past 10 years, definitely. But I remember a time when Nvidia was the only reasonable recommendation for a graphics card on Linux, because Radeon was so bad. This was before Wayland, and probably even before AMD bought ATI. And it was certainly long before the amdgpu drivers existed.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah it was before AMD did graphics.

        ATI had an atrocious closed source driver. I used it … but it was not good at much of anything.

        • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          9 hours ago

          I had ati card on my pc when pentium 4 was all the rage. I literally spent my teenage years learning english in order to get the dumb games I saved up ages for to work without crashing constantly. Its shocking how the same terrible card manufacturer is part of the company that makes the only cpu worth damn and great gpus.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 hours ago

        Nvidia is still rather nice with FreeBSD, because their official proprietary driver there is, well, fully official, while drivers ported from Linux somewhat lag behind and have problems sometimes.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      14 hours ago

      Man, I completely forgot about that. That’s honestly wild to think about in retrospect…