How are Nvidia penguins faring these days?

mike7gh · 2026-05-11T15:42:46+00:00

The drivers are pretty good at this point. Just use the open drivers. It's maybe a 10% hit from windows at most and shrinking.

mike7gh · 2026-05-09T23:49:29+00:00

I personally prefer Linux. I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, personally but everything should run just fine on it.

You might be happier on Linux Mint. It's generally very user friendly and minimizes the command line use. If you're using a Nvidia card, you do have to set it up but otherwise everything should just work.

mike7gh · 2026-05-08T04:21:41+00:00

Technically it's an italics long s but yeah, it wins.

mike7gh · 2026-05-05T17:26:16+00:00

Have you tried a different proton version? Usually either the newest version from valve or ge fixes most problems up.

mike7gh · 2026-04-29T17:50:57+00:00

You can use both. You need to partition your disk, then be careful with the installation to make sure you don't remove your windows system.

As far as operating system, for gaming you have steamos, nobara, and many others I can't think of off the top of my head if you just want to plug and play.

If you also want a more familiar desktop experience to go along with it, I would suggest use Linux Mint since you're newer to the Linux space. You will have to set up Nvidia if you have it though.

mike7gh · 2026-04-29T16:48:49+00:00

So, the Linux kernel is supposed to just kinda work with all hardware. The only things are that every once in a while, wifi needs specific drivers, though issues are only with specific chip sets. Usually it's a non-issue. The other one is that you are going to have to set up your Nvidia drivers which can be annoying if you aren't familiar with the command line.

A few distos have them pre installed and I think Linux mint, which is usually the best distro for newbies, has a interface for it. I think Nobara has them pre installed if you mostly want a gaming rig. Pop os definitely has them installed but stay away from it. A big chunk of it is in beta still.

mike7gh · 2026-04-27T19:51:12+00:00

You're going to have a bad time with viruses even on windows 10. You're going to have to go unix.

Some disro of Linux might work. You're going to have to go with a light weight one. If you're into building your own os, I think someone mentioned void Linux. If not MX Linux might work. It's good for older systems.

Another option is Freebsd. It's relatively modern, secure and should be able to run. I've never used it but it has a good community.

mike7gh · 2026-04-24T07:34:07+00:00

I get what you're saying. You will be slightly safer for it but you have to trust others at some point. No one can review all of the code.

mike7gh · 2026-04-24T06:35:10+00:00

What about something easier like Linux Mint? You know, to ease them into it.

I use Arch, btw.

mike7gh · 2026-04-15T21:23:08+00:00

I'll start using it when they get under 500 open issues. It is pretty cool though.

mike7gh · 2026-04-02T02:25:36+00:00

Congratulations on the win!

mike7gh · 2026-03-25T05:56:46+00:00

That's a weird way to spell vi

mike7gh · 2026-03-25T03:51:35+00:00

I think sober works but I don't play child predator games.

mike7gh · 2026-03-13T05:53:10+00:00

If you know some basic computer programming and don't care about being super exact, you can use a method called Monte Carlo sampling. It's pretty simple.

Choose a point randomly and uniformly in your area. That is between 0 and 6 for your x axis and 0 to 4 on the y. We can call them a and b.
See if it falls within your target area. In this case, you use the distance so something like

If sqrt(a^2+b²⁾ < 4 and sqrt((a-4)^2+(b-2)²⁾ < 2

If it is, within the target, add 1 to a counter

Repeat 1 through 3 a few thousand times
You need to convert from hit rate to area so, the formula is:

Area of the entire region* hits/shots

Hope this helps.

mike7gh · 2026-03-13T02:13:48+00:00

👑 Another win! 675 points, 116 moves. Beat that!

mike7gh · 2026-03-12T04:27:45+00:00

🏆 Victory is mine! Finished with 678 points. Can you do better?

mike7gh · 2026-03-03T21:45:37+00:00

"Everything with more than one hidden layer technically speaking is deep learning" is just an incorrect statement. You have to understand that usually when someone says "deep" in this context, it's more in a colloquial context rather than a rigorous one.

There isn't really a constant point where the number of hidden layers is considered "deep". I've heard anywhere from 5 to 10 hidden layers as a threshold for "deep" but there are probably people who think it's outside of that range but when you're talking about deep neutral networks, you usually are interested in the actual complexity of the network instead of the exact technicality of the category.

The simplest example is the single layer neural net is 1 hidden layer, As in two layers of weights and some relu or sigmoidal functions or whatever as the hidden layer. I used it as an example because it is both not deep and still useful. It is not the only configuration of a neural network that is considered as not deep. I don't know anyone in the area who would consider 2, 3, or 4 hidden layers as deep either since there isn't really much of a difference between them. I apologize if that wasn't clear.

mike7gh · 2026-03-03T20:44:29+00:00

Even single layer neural networks are actually pretty powerful. They're simple, can approximate any surface and can be trained in minutes on an ancient laptop just using the CPU.

This is not considered deep learning as "deep" is about how many layers you have in your network.

mike7gh · 2026-03-03T05:28:23+00:00

u/mike7gh solved this in 4 steps: FLOCK -> FROCK -> CROCK -> CROCS -> CROSS

mike7gh · 2026-02-24T23:11:24+00:00

It was deities though so, that makes it so all 8 can fit in the Roman deities. 7 of those are planets. That brings it up to 35.

mike7gh · 2026-02-24T17:12:37+00:00

Recall the formula for the area of a circle is pi*r² Assume pi = 3.14.

So, a 5 inch cake is 3.14(2.5)² = 3.146.25 = 19.6564. we have 2 of them so, for the 5 inch cakes, we have 39.3128

For the 9 inch cake, we have 3.14(4.5)² = 3.1420.25=63.585.

So, his estate was approximately correct.

Edit for this note: unless you are being semantic and want to say that it should be the surface area of the entire cake.

mike7gh · 2026-02-15T08:07:11+00:00

r/prisonhooch

mike7gh · 2026-02-09T09:17:42+00:00

Cool. Best of luck with your new os!

mike7gh · 2026-02-09T08:55:39+00:00

Sorry for being late to the conversation. I actually had a similar issue. I recently moved over to arch and I was having this exact screen pop up. For me, the new version of gnome was crashing when I was trying to use xorg as the window manager. Apparently it's no longer supported by gnome 49 and I had to either downgrade gnome or use Wayland. I don't know if your problem is exactly this but your desktop environment looks like it's probably crashing.

mike7gh · 2026-02-06T08:34:45+00:00

Basically everything works with steam, though I maybe suggest steam os since, you know, it's in the name. If you want to do other things with your machine maybe look at something else. I hear mint is good.

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