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CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by SomeoneFromCA »

alerighi wrote: post #36
jacquesm wrote: post #10

Pity. CUDA was/is proof positive that Linux on the desktop is perfectly feasible and that you can use it to both do a UI and do meaningful computation on the same machine without getting tied down into all kinds of licensing schemes. Opening this further up to Windows gives fewer people a really good reason to try out Linux as their daily driver. I personally don't get why any developer would prefer Windows over Linu…

First a developer you don't do only programming: you maybe have to work with documents, do a presentation, a spreadsheet and thus use Office. You maybe have to make some icons or logos and thus you need Adobe Illustrator. You maybe need to connect to a printer like the one that we have at my office that good luck doing that on Linux. You maybe need a CAD software to designa PCB, you need whatever other software that…

I personally like systemd, and I wish FreeBSD will eventually have it.

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by bransonf »

ubercow13 wrote: post #202
bransonf wrote: post #104

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WSL 2 significantly increased I/O performance if you were wondering.

Across the VM/host barrier?

To some extent, yes. However, you will get the best performance (and improvement over WSL1) when working with files contained within the Linux file system.

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by yahyaheee »

mikkelam wrote: post #175
yahyaheee wrote: post #109

This is particularly impactful since macOS won’t support CUDA drivers anymore.

Yep, as a long time hackintosher i'm definitely swapping now. Apple doesn't want GPU compute users, so it's not really worth fighting anymore.

It's such a ridiculous position they are taking

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by Skunkleton »

DarkmSparks wrote: post #162
smichel17 wrote: post #97

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The Linux Subsystem for Windows 1, on the other hand, is called Wine and works impressively well. Better than WSL1 did, at any rate.

Surely wine is a windows subsystem for linux? absolutely _nothing_ about the subsystem made by microsoft is "for linux". I also still dont understand what you get for paying for a windows licence to run linux except more overhead and a total lack of a package manager.

WSL1 emulates linux's syscall interface. WSL2 is a lightweight vm. In either case you can run a regular distro, so not sure what you are on about a package manager.

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by DarkmSparks »

Skunkleton wrote: post #205
DarkmSparks wrote: post #162

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Surely wine is a windows subsystem for linux? absolutely _nothing_ about the subsystem made by microsoft is "for linux". I also still dont understand what you get for paying for a windows licence to run linux except more overhead and a total lack of a package manager.

WSL1 emulates linux's syscall interface. WSL2 is a lightweight vm. In either case you can run a regular distro, so not sure what you are on about a package manager.

I understand what they do. I just dont understand why you would do it.

What is the benefit compared to the much simpler, better performance and cheaper option of just running Linux proper and using wine for windows things.

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by WorldMaker »

jchw wrote: post #132
jfim wrote: post #95

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> And that’s not all. I close my laptop lid when my laptop is docked. Windows helpfully sleeps the laptop even though external monitors, a mouse, and a keyboard are connected. There is no fix. Right click the battery icon in the system tray > Power Options > Choose what closing the lid does > Do nothing.

Of course, then lid close will never work as intended. What I want is for lid close to sleep IFF no external monitors are connected, regardless of whether the machine is on AC power or not. Thank you for the suggestion, and in my actual solution, I basically programmatically switch this setting on and off based on whether or not external monitors are connected.

This is what Windows Custom Power Plans was built for. Have a plan called "Docked" that disables lid close, and leave it as sleep in other plans. Custom Power Plans have been buried in Windows 10 as confusing power user/OEM features, yet they still exist.

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by Skunkleton »

DarkmSparks wrote: post #206
Skunkleton wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WSL1 emulates linux's syscall interface. WSL2 is a lightweight vm. In either case you can run a regular distro, so not sure what you are on about a package manager.

I understand what they do. I just dont understand why you would do it. What is the benefit compared to the much simpler, better performance and cheaper option of just running Linux proper and using wine for windows things.

Ok, think of your favorite Linux only application, then imagine running it through cygwin. Does that sound like a good time?

Re: CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

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Post by diffeomorphism »

pjmlp wrote: post #177
diffeomorphism wrote: post #152

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They are totally an edge case. If you care about hidpi why do you still have a bad external screen? If you don't care about hidpi simply set a lower resolution on the one hidpi screen.

Because that is a standard office configuration during the last 15 years, laptops with docking stations and external monitors. More than enough time to catch up.

Yes, standard configuration where the laptop and the external monitor have about the same ppi.
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