Let us briefly recapitulate the 27 most important compiler flags when compiling towards an ARM target…

He got in during the nineties and his stock options vested. Now he spends his time restoring vintage Ferraris.

Oh. OK. Makes sense. Can’t I get a second hand universe somewhere?

But I thought the guy wanted to install Gentoo.

Quite so. The cheapest card that I’d put any kind of real AI workload on is the 16GB Radeon 9060XT. That’s not what I would call budget friendly, which is why I consider a budget friendly AI GPU to be a mythical beast.

First you need to dig in your garden until you find the iron to make knitting needles.

The budget friendly AI GPUs are in the shelf right next to the unicorn pen.

This is the way. Money will always get peoples’ attention.

I’m on 22.2. i guess I should just go back to 6.8.

I get kernel panic when I try to use 6.14 in Mint. 6.11 is fine, though that seems to be deprecated.

Curse you, filthy heretic!

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our lord and saviour, Linus Torvalds?

Large corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.

How would one go about making an offline copy of the repos? Asking for a friend.

Yes. My name is 4chan.

But the latest LMDE version was moved to the latest Debian version, which is what the article is about.

I changed the font size in Linux Mint. Does that count?

And just think how quickly you can get them all up and running with NixOS! All those endless hours of learning finally put to good use!

There’s probably some lightweight Linux distro you can get to run on it. It could be used for some edge computing, like Pihole.

Mint is still a great choice if just for the ease of installation. I agree they’re lagging behind a bit in the transition to Wayland but for most users that’s not really a big issue. Mint also has one of the largest communities so getting support will be easier. To me Mint is still an excellent choice for getting started with Linux. I’ve been using it for years and I see no reason whatsoever to switch.