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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

No, they're not, and I wish people would stop repeating this. If you want to do anything in userspace, it's still proprietary, Nouveau, or NVK, the second of which has never been comparable and the third of which is still in development (though showing a lot of promise). What is basically at feature parity is the kernel drivers, which if the author had read their source, they'd already know. Kernelspace ≠ Userspace.

However, I will agree that even with the proprietary driver, most people will have a comparable experience to anyone with an AMD card. Hell, I can even use my old laptop with an integrated 960M to play the same games it has always been able to play. Linux has become more available to more people than ever, and it's only going to continue to get better.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

As someone who doesn't follow this stuff closely, I appreciate the clarification!

Its nice to hear from someone with more hands on experience. Hope you have a good one :)