I’m a big fan of Fedora KDE Plasma for my main desktop, but there’s no question that this is the future.
Immediately i see alot of comments complaining they don’t want to be ‘talking to their PC’, but i see a future where you still type and use a mouse, but speak, or ‘wave your hands and point your fingers’, like in that tom cruise sci-fi movie in certain cases.
So naturally, a thread discussing the possibility of a Fedora RTX Spark Edition. What say you?
No disagreement there. But RTX Spark as based on ARM, so the basic first step would indeed be a Spin with a package manager that only contains compatible apps etc.. Mind you i’m not technologically qualified to know anything, hence this thread
NVIDIA has heavily collaborated with Microsoft in its development, so it will exclusively power notebooks and desktops from major PC OEMs with Windows 11 AI PC pre-installed, along with full Copilot+ native acceleration readiness.
Vendor lock-in with a monopolist. This seems pretty hostile to free software principles.
I don’t think the hardware is locked in any way, the DGX devbox runs linux. And any attempt to lock it to windows would be funny, as it will be hacked in a nanosecond, as it should.
It would be pure stupidity for Nvidia to try to fight the linux community, i don’t think that’s an issue.
But it sounds like I can’t purchase the hardware without Windows pre-installed, so the product comes with the cost of an MS license bundled in.
Have non-Microsoft developers been given equal access during development, so that non-MS solutions can be developed on a par with “full Copilot+ native acceleration readiness”?
good questions, hope anyone that knows will respond to this thread. Reading that techpowerup article plus initial comments was kind of frustrating as no mention of linux, so that’s why i wanted to create this discussion. I know it’s still early days, and i’m pretty confident that there will be linux distro’s for Nvidia PC hardware, but maybe Fedora could be on the forefront?
edit: just added a more appropriate source from Phoronix, a quote from their short newsflash:
NVIDIA’s Computex keynote around the RTX Spark was heavily promoting RTX Spark with Microsoft Windows 11. But, fear not, the NVIDIA RTX Spark will still work great on Linux.
The nvidia drivers are not included in the linux kernel because they not accepted as open source. Once the nvk driver is production ready maybe this device will work with Fedora.
Yeah, to be clear, I didn’t intend to imply that you would be unable to use it with a non-Windows OS. I was referring to the anti-competitive collusive arrangements between these giant corps.
Despite all the issues, the hardware Nvidia has announced is a big deal. So big it might become irresistible, even if you have to run proprietary nvidia kernel modules from non-free repos.
In my age i don’t even like trying to configure KDE plasma to my liking, because of the enormous amounts of settings available, it’s just easier to leave it at defaults
But being able to ask the system to change this and that would be much better.. Just a small example.
you wouldn’t need a new spin, fedora workstation, minimal, everything and even plasma desktop all have arm support using aarch64, which is the architecture the rtx spark will be using.
