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Re: Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its? drivers are laid off

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On 2025-08-14, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:52:15 +0100 The Natural Philosopher
> <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 14/08/2025 13:59, John McCue wrote:
>> > rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
[...]
>> >> I've always favored AMD and my newest boxes are Ryzen 7s. With
>> >> Intel seemingly trying to commit suicide in a very messy fashion
>> >> I wouldn't buy a new machine with 'Intel Inside'.
>> > 
>> > Yes, if I ever buy new, it would be an AMD.  And no Nvidia :)
>> > 
>> Horses fopr courses. Ive had good luck with Nvidia. Mt friend at the 
>> bleeding edge of mathematical computation, says Intel is the only chip 
>> that has some advanced vector instructions or something .
>> I am getting fond of ARM base Pis.
>> Now I know not to expect too much beyond low price
>
> I've had *bad* luck with Nvidia.  I have no need for their semi-closed driver 
> (I don't really need the accel -- I almost exclusively use only xterms), but 
> had issues with the open source drivers as well as issues with things like the 
> ethernet driver on the AMD motherboard (which had a Nvidia chipset).

I've started seeing at least one website that *demands* webgl. Of course
the website (webapp?) could just have proper fallbacks in place, but:
how are things if one wants to enable webgl without hardware
acceleration? Is that doable? Is it practical?

> Since my AMD motherboard died (after over 10 years of more or less continious 
> operation), I got a Raspberry Pi5.  To replace the x86_64's guts it would cost 
> 3x+ what I paided for the Raspberry Pi5, complete with power supply and 256G 
> SSD.  Basically I "replaced" a x86_64 ATX tower system with a Raspberry Pi5.  
> About $100 for the complete Raspberry Pi5, vs *at least* $300 to replace the 
> x86_64 ATX system: cheapest Intel desktop processor: $100, cheapest ATX 
> moderboard $100, plus RAM for the motherboard (unknown, but guessing at least 
> $100) -- the case, power supply (fairly recently replaced), and disks from the 
> old system are still good.

Yeah, I can imagine. I for one would prefer to have more computing power
for compilation, but the space-saving and power-saving nature of a
smaller system, besides the price tag, probably shouldn't be overlooked.

(But to be fair I haven't checked what's the computing power available
nowadays in such smaller devices, maybe it already allows heaver CPU
usage of that kind?)

-- 
Nuno Silva

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Re: Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its? drivers are laid off Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-22 10:14 +0100

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