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Would it almost be equivalent to snap on Android?

I’ve heard very little about it. Is there some controversy around it?

I’ve been lucky enough to dumb guy my fedora install since 28, and it’s been pretty decent to me. Granted I’m not using nvidia graphics, and I feel like that could throw a big spanner in the works for regular users. It’s a big enough leap getting into the mindset of installing software from Distro repos rather than directly from the vendor.

I hope the newer nv open kernel modules don’t stay out of tree. Also hope that NVK will give users the ability to just plug and play with mesa drivers in the future.

Yikes I wasn’t aware of the second part

I was about to ask, isn’t this guy a prolific dickhead?

the reset situation may improve in the not too distant future: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Per-Ring-Resets

You can still technically use Vega and Polaris with ROCm, the official stance is that it’s no longer validated.

With that said, the setup and development experience is pretty dire and the docs do not seem to get updated in a timely manner.

(I heard) Anecdotes aren’t data. It’s not difficult to find comparative pricing information. I think you would generally find this is untrue, though it’s worth considering regional pricing.

no CUDA EULA violation. This one is cut and dry. You could have made a better point about the state of ROCm (narrow product and platform support, poor documentation, library gaps in HIP).

intel has best support Look at the state of ANV for Arc dGPU on Linux.

I see. I’m really not keen on the use of MPT since I’ve seen it fairly broadly recommended to more casual users (I’d place the blame on certain YouTubers), occasionally leading to bricked ASICs, though I’m glad you’re seeing tangible benefit from using it.

Please bear in mind that custom tuning isn’t a guarantee between different driver versions; the voltage floor can shift with power management firmware changes delivered driver packages (this doesn’t overwrite the board VBIOS, it’s loaded in at OS runtime (pmfw is also included in linux-firmware)). I’d recommend testing with vulkan memory test with each Adrenalin update, and every now and then on Fedora too.

Same config and distro as you.

I’ve not experienced the first issue, so I don’t have a great deal of input for that. Could be a display specific behaviour.

For 2, I’ve had the Steam UI hang on occasion, though this has not occurred recently. I’ll try to see if I can get this to repro again.

For 3, there’s a few things worth bearing in mind here. AMDGPU and the Windows Radeon KMD don’t really have a lot on common. I’d be interested in any perf comparisons you have between the two systems even with the default mclk on linux. I find that Fedora is more performant in somewhat surprising scenarios, like with CP2077, Halo Infinite.

For 4, I could show you how to leverage the powerplay sysfs interface and run this via systemd service at login if you’d like?

Unfortunately have no input on 5 as I use Firefox but I hope you find a solution.

Ah, missed the if

I mean it’s still a touch centric device first and foremost. I’m not so familiar though, what year were iPad pro’s introduced? I wasn’t aware you could flash Linux on those, that’s pretty neat.

I used to have a keyboard folio cover with the original retina iPad (I think third gen?) back in the day and got the majority of my writing done on it, but I still relied heavily on gesture navigation and what not.

Maybe I’ll try gnome on my steam deck as a quick test.

for sure, enabling professional work where needed is all well and good, though you still need to consider the user experience with that form factor in mind.

I kind of dread to think about using Linux DEs on a tablet. Maybe gnome would work okay. I’m not sure if plasma features a tablet mode. If so, I’ll want to check that out on the steam deck.

I think that would be a very reasonable next step for them for sure.

With that said (and make no mistake, I’m no fan of apple), you can get a decent range if work done on an iPad, though I would love an open alternative.

Fully agreed on Fairphone. The mission is noble but the execution has been poor. I saw a revent interview with Nirav Patel, hoping against hope that framework would turn to phones next.

In the end it seems the most degoogleable phone is the pixel.

Safteynet is now more or less deprecated anyway. I shared this concern until I reached out to the team, mind you.

I also only recently learned that microg can run unprivileged

What binary blobs does microG download from Google? If you’re referring to safetynet, this is opt in and deprecated now anyway.

MicroG can also work unprivileged though that is contingent on your ROM

for the package manager remark, you can get by with the GUI on most popular distros now.

I like using the cli but every now and then I challenge myself to only use GUI and I feel like it works fine on fedora, ubuntu etc.

I particularly like that fedora workstation keeps the system updates/upgrades in the GNOME app store, it feels cohesive and intuitive.

Will check this out thank you for the tip!

o shit I was expecting merch lol