Nixos because… I feel like were already loud enough of a crowd everyone should know its benefits lol

You can make as many dimensions as you want as long as you clean them up when youre done

Sounds like flatpaks/appimages with extra steps

Includes all dependencies? ✔️

A single file? ✔️

Independent of host libraries? ✔️

Limited learning curve? ✔️

Not sure how appimages handle it internally, but with flatpaks you can even be storage efficient with layers, whereas 100s of static binaries could contain an awful lot of duplicates.

Can’t see why you dislike appimages, sure not 100% size efficient - but for one off binaries youre probably not spending much time optimizing anyways.

Not that you couldnt make an appimage 2.0 solving all your issues, but we’d just be back to that package manager xkcd all over again

Just lost wmr to windows updates too, I’d expect more shit like this now that theyre better monopolized

If you’ve ever used Xbox, its like quick resume

(From my limited understanding)

I mean I imagine an LLM is able to generate more entropy from the sheer computing power put into it, but I agree traditional digital stenography methods are MUCH more cost/power efficient than an LLM.

(Not even to mention the amount of cyclic redundancy youd probably need just to get a message across)

Depending on the environment I suppose texr-based could be beneficial vs (relatively) large media files

I could honestly see this as one of the few legit uses for LLMs.

Throw some data ino it and make some “natural text” to obfuscate it.

Source: 🤷‍♂️ trust me bro

Dunno what else to tell ya cause they are moving to open source, but hey googles free if you want to find out for yourself

4% of US alone is 12 million people.

If even 25% of them decide hardware purchases based on driver support, 3 million sales isn’t ignorable.

(The number of PCs sold globally per year is similarly 300,000,000, so even then theyd lose out on 12 million potential sales YEARLY)

The market is also pretty shit post-covid, so I’m sure every hardware company is dying for a way to boost sales metrics.

With the linux server market share and recent ai boom, theyd have to be more than just blind deaf and dumb to not release linux drivers.

Maybe this was true back in like the early 2000’s?

Yeah, it was a bit of a growing pain tradeoff to accommodate high performance enterprise clusters, but kinda only sucks for the small user environment.

Still pretty impressive the same software can serve both those markets though.

Nextcloud doesnt really like when you do this, it stores file locations in its database and hand manages them.

Could work for a local instance though if you set up a cron job to rescan the dir every night or so

I hear this a lot but in production I still see xp/win 7 era PC’s all the time due to comparability issues (half the time still online too :/ )

Maybe its just absurd support for big spenders like the US military?

Seems like the small companies are mostly getting burned by gambling on MS

Any reason you dont just use bcachefs?

Supports various write-cache configurations, and seperate forgrouns/background replications (a la raid 1).

I think its even more stable than raid because it’ll auto-balance when a disk fails, but I’m not as certain in that

No balls go tell your employer Hitler was right and you personally fucked a dog last night.

Trust me bro these words won’t hurt you, their kinetic energy is like in the milijoules at worst.

Only sort of, quoting this article

much of the important graphics code isn’t actually open-source. Nvidia appears to have moved much of its proprietary code into the firmware on its graphics cards, which the open-source code interacts with.

So while they did ‘open source’ their drivers, theyre also not accepting contributions that aren’t in house. The codebase is too locked down to benefit other projects like NVK, as a true FOSS project would be.

Bit of misinformation on this thread, but generally the only thing that can actually get in the way of someone dedicated enough will be compatibility and security systems.

You probably won’t have any luck getting nvidia drivers on android for example, nor take the time to back port those drivers to an outdated kernel.

I suppose you could also have an OS that takes most your system resources for non-gaming tasks, making games unplayable. Something like nixos is non-gaming centric and could reasonably be more optimised than bazzite, less background processes making games actually run better on it.

That being said if youre looking for performance, the last thing you’d want is open source nvidia drivers; theyre built entirely off reverse engineering, which takes time. This allows for large performance gains like those of late.

The proprietary stack hasn’t had much change in performance over the last couple updates, a couple have even result in a performance regression to push new features. As of the latest preview driver (565.77) the minimum kernel supported goes back to the 4.15 Linux kernel release. This technically means you’d be able to run the latest nvidia drivers on anything newer than Debian 10 buster, which went out of support in September 2022.

Sounds like you might have gotten some of your info sources crossed - but thats exactly why distros like Bazzite exist, you dont have to worry about any of this background compatibility bs.