Bit of misinformation on this thread, but generally the only thing that can actually get in the way of someone dedicated enough will be compatibility and security systems.

You probably won’t have any luck getting nvidia drivers on android for example, nor take the time to back port those drivers to an outdated kernel.

I suppose you could also have an OS that takes most your system resources for non-gaming tasks, making games unplayable. Something like nixos is non-gaming centric and could reasonably be more optimised than bazzite, less background processes making games actually run better on it.

That being said if youre looking for performance, the last thing you’d want is open source nvidia drivers; theyre built entirely off reverse engineering, which takes time. This allows for large performance gains like those of late.

The proprietary stack hasn’t had much change in performance over the last couple updates, a couple have even result in a performance regression to push new features. As of the latest preview driver (565.77) the minimum kernel supported goes back to the 4.15 Linux kernel release. This technically means you’d be able to run the latest nvidia drivers on anything newer than Debian 10 buster, which went out of support in September 2022.

Sounds like you might have gotten some of your info sources crossed - but thats exactly why distros like Bazzite exist, you dont have to worry about any of this background compatibility bs.

Theres a difference between stable and outdated. Generally bleeding edge will introduce many more vulnerabilities than will go unnoticed in stable.

Debian is known (almost exclusively) for only updating their repo when they’re certain it is safe, but also rapidly pushing security patches; its a server oriented distro where security is paramount.

Can’t speak for any other distro but android’s winulator (under the hood wine and box64/86) runs pretty well

I’m curious what type of workflow you have to utilise mainly the sane data consistently, I’m probably biased because I like to try software out - but I can’t imagine (outside office use) a loop that would remain this closed

Currently have 2 1tb NVME’s over around 6 tb of HDDs, works really nice to keep a personal steam cache on the HDD’s in case I pick up an old game with friends, or want to play a large game but only use part of it (ie cod zombies).

Also is super helpful for shared filesystem’s (syncthing or NFS), as its able to support peripheral computers a lot more dynamically then I’d ever care to personally configure. (If thats unclear, I use it for a jellyfin server, crafty instance, some coding projects - things that see heavy use in bursts, but tend to have an attention lifespan).

Using bcachefs with backups myself, and after a couple months my biggest worry is the kernel drama more than the fs itself

Probably should have elaborated more in the original comment, but essentially I’m not a professional so the freedom of creating custom UI + having some standard variable structures like 2d and 3d transformations are worth it.

It also has a python-eqsue language, good build in ide, documentation, generic GPU access, and most importantly personally is extremely cross platform.

Mostly visualisations though, with rust doing the actual legwork

Mostly for visualisations, but having a standardised reference for 2d and 3d transforms has come in handy too.

Admittedly, visuals aside, rust does most of the mathematical heavy lifting

Edit to note I’m not employed in data science, so I have a lot more wiggle room for things to go wrong

Ive had surprising luck with Godot for basic things, complimenting it with rust or opengl for higher performance

Pretty sure I saw on the arch wiki you can even use exclusive vram on a system

“Improve user experience” tends to mean if you’re poor, the lowest level of hell isn’t gonna compare to how shitty of an experience they’ll give you

Can’t say ive don’t the full thing myself cause I couldnt find an easy way to mount network drives (there was a lot of jerry-rigging going on), but ive gotten to a webui before

Fuck it, throw a 512 GB SD in an old phone and run a full jellyfin server in termux

Try nix with flakes and drown in the tears of joy

Papers are most importantly a documentation of exactly what and how a procedure was performed, adding a vagueness filter over that is only going to decrease its value infinitely.

Real question is why are we using generative ai at all (gets money out of idiot rich people)

Honestly reading through your comments, I couldnt reccomend Godot more - I’ll just toss some bullet points below.

• GUI tools with lots of tutorials
• Basic 2D and 3D rigid body simulations
• Very extendable if you know C++ or rust
• In house python like compiled language deeply engrained into the engine, which is surprisingly fast
• Cross compileable to most devices, but honestly the engine itself runs on all devices I use so something like syncthing makes dev incredibly portable
• Ecosystem is only growing by the day, most tutorials are game dev related reasonably but still cover most topics one could need
• Basic GPU compute support if that’s your thing

Theres some things its not yet perfect at, like the web export could be better - and in depth things like minimising copies between CPU and GPU might not be as fine grained as hardcore devs would like, but if youre coming from mathematics and python it’ll fit like a glove.

Just for an anecdote I wrote a basic particle simulation in gdscript that was HORRENDOUS for performance, 200 particles all calculated the per frame force of attraction to every other particle then summed it; whole thing ran at 80 fps even on my phone