I used to install various flavors of Linux from the mid-90s to early 2000's, pretty much for funsies. There was no compelling reason or business scenario for me to do so. And it felt like this most of the time.
It was Nvidia display drives on RHEL, something would lock on to one of the monitors in \dev and not let the drive in stall without backing the whole system down out of GUI but not to full command prompt to delete out the file and install the drive manually.
Oof. Been using Linux for basically 30 years now, I've WRITTEN my own drivers for shit over the years, and Nvidia drivers are NOTORIOUSLY bad with their DKMS module that has never worked for shit. I eventually dropped them and moved all my CUDA shit into rocm/hip which was its own fucking can of worms where AMD would only provide them with their proprietary driver but it's worse than the kernel driver so i had to duct tape that shit together why is this still a thing lol
The only software I had to touch Linux for was ProMAX maintained by halliburton. Now-a-days there is more windows based seismic processing software that can do FK migrations, brute stacks, LMOs, velocity picking. It's brighter times other than wanting a doctorate for field work.
BootsNCatsNBootsNCatsN
I have minimally coded a couple emulation boxes and I am with you, sister
PeterHartman
Been using Linux since 1993. God I’m old.
natebitatibetan
KainLamond
Oh God I had to use Linux for work and I felt this same way when ever I had to update drives.
HiVizDiver
I used to install various flavors of Linux from the mid-90s to early 2000's, pretty much for funsies. There was no compelling reason or business scenario for me to do so. And it felt like this most of the time.
KainLamond
I can understand it having a time and place but even with that I... could just rant -_-
But it is what it is...
StillWittyMFs
I just nailed spikes into various body parts. It was simpler and less painful.
DarkZalgo
I've never had much difficulties beyond running sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
natebitatibetan
sudo yum update -y or sudo dnf up -y was my choice for a while but I like Ubuntu too.
klaceo
DarkZalgo
You want some real witchcraft, throw in a sudo apt moo as well
KainLamond
It was Nvidia display drives on RHEL, something would lock on to one of the monitors in \dev and not let the drive in stall without backing the whole system down out of GUI but not to full command prompt to delete out the file and install the drive manually.
n0gal
Oof. Been using Linux for basically 30 years now, I've WRITTEN my own drivers for shit over the years, and Nvidia drivers are NOTORIOUSLY bad with their DKMS module that has never worked for shit. I eventually dropped them and moved all my CUDA shit into rocm/hip which was its own fucking can of worms where AMD would only provide them with their proprietary driver but it's worse than the kernel driver so i had to duct tape that shit together why is this still a thing lol
KainLamond
The only software I had to touch Linux for was ProMAX maintained by halliburton. Now-a-days there is more windows based seismic processing software that can do FK migrations, brute stacks, LMOs, velocity picking. It's brighter times other than wanting a doctorate for field work.
Frenchgeek
Oh, Nvidia, the best GPU drivers of the early 90s, even today...
KainLamond
This was 2005 to 2015 time frame