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by hospitalJail 1032 days ago
I havent been able to uninstall Chrome. Everyone makes sure they test their website for Chrome. Firefox/Safari just don't have devs testing on them.

I currently have Firefox for most things, but I seemingly always have chromium open to check to see if a website isnt behaving correctly.

What a terrible time for computing. Chrome is in total control of web. Nvidia + M$ have complete control of high performance computing, and M$ sucks. Apple captures tons of attention and time with their marketing but has low quality products.
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jeroenhd 1032 days ago
What power does MS have over high performance computing? Perhaps some fields use Windows specific applications, but most high performance computing I see uses Linux by default, with WSL for the Windows equivalent.

I use Chrome as a fallback too when the measures I've taken to protect my privacy break websites I can't get around, but in most cases websites just work in my experience. Almost all of the issues I run into are caused by addons messing with websites, like content blockers.

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hospitalJail 1032 days ago
Nvidia has CUDA. CUDA is basically all that matters right now.

Sure there is some half effort from Nvidia to support Linux, but you can do 1 google search to realize Nivida and Linux do not play together nicely.

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jeroenhd 1032 days ago
CUDA and Linux work just fine together. Nvidia GPU drivers and Linux (especially mobile Linux) are a bigger problem, but on desktop Nvidia works fine (just don't enable Wayland) and on mobile it works fine as long as you have an integrated GPU to actually render to your screen.

I don't think I've ever had trouble getting CUDA to run. It seems to be the only thing Nvidia cares about making work reliably on Linux.

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