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.”
I hope to see some nice Risc-V PCs soon
Don’t get too excited – if this goes like the last few NVidia hardware, it will:
- cost too much
- run a non-mainline kernel
- NVidia will discontinue support for it after 3 months
Go talk to all the Jetson owners out there and see how happy they are with NVidia Linux boxes. I’ll believe it when I see it (and when it is supported for longer than a quarter)
Haven’t they been making things like the Jetson AGX for years? I guess this is an announcement of the next generation.
It’s a pile of shit compared to any other sbc. It’s difficult to develop or run anything because it has an arm chip
But arm is the most deployed microprocessor in the world? I’d much rather write arm assembly than Intel or PowerPC. For higher level languages, arm has good compiler support. Can you explain why you don’t like arm? I’m genuinely curious because it is probably my favorite development environment (I mostly write embedded system software).
It is an horrible ecosystem that could very well end the era of the personnal computer. I type this on an arm device which I cannot ever be root on. Arm has been the biggest rollback in user freedom since windows 10.
Well, it’s still a modified custom distro and other distros will need to invest extra effort to be able to run there. So, no actual freedom of choice for users again…
Not true. You can run other distros, but it won’t be ready to go without a decent amount of work.
thats…literally what they just said.
They said there is no freedom of choice. You are free to choose any distro you want. HW mfgs aren’t under obligation to provide inbox support for niche markets.
Folks, I think we got a bot here thats just spewing pre-prepared lines, regardless of how irrelevant the comment is.
Versus someone that doesn’t understand the market segment this is meant for. People using it for training don’t care about the distro or gfx drivers. It’s an appliance.
Where’s the PC? Is it the brick on the desk? 🤣
But… Why make it so ugly?
I actually think it looks neat.
I fucking wish you could filter out words like “Linux” on Lemmy so I don’t have to hear it anymore. I avoid Linux out of spite to all the Linux bros
Stay mad
Not mad, mildly annoyed. Does the billionaire who owns Linux allow you to get off his dick so you can defend them online?
Is that a joke or do you genuinely not know what linux is? I get being annoyed by it if computers aren’t your thing though.
That’s kind of the funniest way to not know what it is, though.
