[jwrallie]

I’m working in education and will change to other vendors in the near future. That means all my students will do so as well.

Windows cannot provide feature parity for workloads that require cross compiling, AMD could at least support RHEL like the old days.

[_humenberger]

A wide list of FPGA boards is supported by the open source FPGA eco system.

Lattice, Xilinx, Gowin, Renesas, Colognechip,

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[WhyNotHugo]

This is the obvious reaction. I wonder what AMD expected would happen if they cut off users, but the obvious expectation is that they'd start looking for alternatives. Especially Linux users, who are not typically inclined to pay licenses for software.

[ua709]

Just of out of curiosity, what parts of the University Program don't appeal to you?

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program.html

You can get free licenses and donated hardware through this program.

[jwrallie]

I didn’t like that you are not supporting Linux in your free tier.

Edit: if it is not clear, the way you treat the community is one way I evaluate my decisions to support or not your company when I suggest using your products to others, students or not.

[ua709]

Fair enough but I don’t work for AMD.

[throwaway85825]

Education is only valuable if there's a market for those skills and its hard to have a healthy market without a strong community.

[charcircuit]

Have you tried docker or WSL2. Modern virtualization should make it possible to seamlessly run Linux while in Windows.

[mzajc]

I have, and compared to just running Linux it's not very good. For starters, the shared filesystem is incredibly slow, there is no hardware passthrough support out of the box (even for USB), the graphics support is incomplete and there's lots of non-standard defaults like custom kernel images and a custom init. That's on top of all the bugs and horrible error reporting.

It still beats Windows, but given the choice, I'd much rather just use Linux properly and have all of this just work than waste my time fiddling with WSL/WSL2.

[manwe150]

The open source community has hijacked VBox drivers to get USB pass through working and is the official solution from Microsoft to that problem (since it requires a signed driver on the host, and RedHat was authorized to sign drivers, so Microsoft can provide their drivers to work around the signing requirements of the OS)

[arccy]

nobody should support MicroSlop