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Also to note, dispite urban myths, OpenGL never mattered on game consoles, which people keep forgeting about when praising OpenGL "portability". Then there is the whole issue of extension spaghetti, and incompatibilities across OpenGL, OpenGL ES and WebGL, hardly possible to have portable code 1:1 everywhere, beyond toy examples.
I guess every recent not-xbox never mattered.
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I know that Lina doesn't like a lot of the attention HN sends her way so it may be better if you don't link her socials here.
Sounds ridiculous, why have a public presence on a social network then?
you know certain social media sites contain certain toxic conversants.
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There is no competition when games only come to Linux by "emulating" Windows. The only thing it has going for it is being a free beer UNIX clone for headless environments, and even then, isn't that relevant on cloud environments where containers and managed languages abstract everything they run on.
Thanks to the Steam Deck, more and more games are being ported for Linux compatibility by default. Maybe some Microsoft owned games makers will never make the shift, but if the majority of others do then that's the death knell.
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Todays linux OS's would have competed incredibly strongly against Vista and probably would have gone blow for blow against 7. Proton, Wine, and all of the compatibility fixes and drive improvements that the community has made in the last 16 years has been amazing, and every day is another day where you can say that it has never been easier to switch away from Windows. However, Microsoft has definitely been drinking t…
> However, Microsoft has definitely been drinking the IBM koolaid a little to long and has lost the mandate of heaven. I think in the next 7-10 years we will reach a point where there is nothing Windows can do that linux cannot do better and easier without spying on you that's a fascinating statement with the clear ascendancy of neural-assisted algorithms etc. Things like DLSS are the future - small models that just…
I'm really rooting for AMD to break the CUDA monopoly. To this end, I genuinely don't know whether a translation layer is a good thing or not. On the upside it makes the hardware much more viable instantly and will boost adoption, on the downside you run the risk that devs will never support ROCm, because you can just use the translation layer. I think this is essentially the same situation as Proton+DXVK for Linux g…
> I'm really rooting for AMD to break the CUDA monopoly Personally I want Nvidia to break the x86-64 monopoly, with how amazing properly spec'd Nvidia cards are to work with I can only dream of a world where Nvidia is my CPU too.
The one supplied by two companies?
This event of release is however a result of AMD stopped funding it per "After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs. One of the terms of my contract with AMD was that if AMD did not find it fit for further development, I could release it. Which brings us to today." from https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq…
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Sounds ridiculous, why have a public presence on a social network then?
oh. I think the emphasis is on hacker news. you know certain social media sites contain certain toxic conversants.
That's just people…
It seems to me that AMD are crazy to stop funding this. CUDA-on-ROCm breaks NVIDIA's moat, and would also act as a disincentive for NVIDIA to make breaking changes to CUDA; what more could AMD want? When you're #1, you can go all-in on your own proprietary stack, knowing that network effects will drive your market share higher and higher for you for free. When you're #2, you need to follow de-facto standards and work…
Yep, I develop several applications that use CUDA. I see AMD/Radeon powered computers for sale and want to buy one, but I am not going to risk not being able to run those applications or having to rewrite them. If they want me as a customer, and they have not created a viable alternative to CUDA, they need to pursue this.
This event of release is however a result of AMD stopped funding it per "After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs. One of the terms of my contract with AMD was that if AMD did not find it fit for further development, I could release it. Which brings us to today." from https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq…
> After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs Who was responsible at AMD for this project and why is he still not fired???????? How brain dead someone have to be to reject the major market share??????