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[-] CucumberFetish@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago

Looking to reinstall Linux on my dual-boot. For legacy robotics reasons, I still have ubuntu 18.04 on it.

Which distro would be the best for gaming + CUDA software dev?

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I’m using Fedora and it’s been great, a bit iffy with nVIDIA out of the box though.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has the most up to date nVIDIA stack. Mainly because the packages are controlled by nVIDIA directly.

[-] CucumberFetish@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago

I'll check out Tumbleweed. Any downsides to it compared to Ubuntu forks?

It has been a while, but nVidia drivers have always been a pain to install, especially when you also need an older version of CUDA. If tumbleweed has a better compatibility/easier installation process, it is a big win.

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Tumbleweed is rolling release (kinda like arch), although they have a pretty rigorous testing process. So that could be a pro or a con depending on who you’re asking.

If what you’re specifically after is older CUDA toolkit compatibility, then I’d recommend using distrobox instead. That’s what I do for ML workloads. (If you plan on redistributing binaries then you’ll have to strip them with binutils though)

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