My mind went to text editor and I was wondering why Vim would be running on the GPU
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What are they talking about?
I do run vim on the GPU, through a GPU-rendered terminal emulator like kitty. And yes, it scrolls noticeably smoother than on other terminals.
Been there, done that.
I bought a new 4K screen for my home office, to use with my work ThinkPad T480.
Actually had to switch from Konsole to Kitty because my old-ass laptop had scroll lags on the big screen when moving around in neovim.
Edit: It was neovim, I'm not living in 2005.
You don't want your editor screaming fast like /bin/ed on an RTX 5090?
Probably an electron-based editor
This looks like it was made to justify those insane text editors with "GPU acceleration" as if text editing requires interop with Vulkan.
It doesn't require, but it runs better on GPU. It's not for nothing that modern terminal emulators like Kitty, Alacritty, Ghostty, and Wezterm ship with GPU support. Sure, they just "render text", but it is a rendering workload that is highly parallelizable. There's no reason to waste CPU cycles with that.
Well as someone from Texas I need those extra cycles on my laptop to keep me warm when the power goes out. Did you think of that you selgjfjcmnf djdb jdjbdjcmosl??
Just use space-bar heating.
Sadly that was patched out from the mainline, you have to run a custom kernel for that now
I'm assuming it's the editor for making things on some game engine or a video editing software, not your text editor. Even the most obese text editor isn't Like That.
Obviously you haven't used Ubuntu or Snaps yet.
well Why Not i dont wanna use a Jraphical Usser Interface unless it's really really Jraphical
You now planted in my mind the idea of a text editor but it has literally EVERY fancy effect one can think of. Like the text animates fancily when you type it, and every interface element is animated and blur-glassy, and when the color of things changes because of code highlighting it does so generating particle effects etc.
It sounds fucking useless. Someone who's good at the coding start making this and I'll donate to your patreon/ko-fi.
Bonus: It's made in Electron and extremely bloated.
i got tree fitty i could kick toward this
I was running Helldiver's 2 for a few weeks this year on CPU alone, and wondering why my framerate sucked. I thought the devs had put out a bad update.
Then I realized the game had forced DX12 and also decided that my graphics card was lacking a feature it required - so it fell back to CPU only. I forced DX11 in config = fixed. Me: π€‘
I had the same situation with kenshi. I can only imagine how much worse it would be on Helldivers lol
Laughs in emacs
160MB isn't actually that bad these days
My first assumption was that this was a video editor but everyone in the comments seems to think it was a text editor
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Being frustrated because nvidia drivers sucks
i wish i could go back to the beginning of this year when i bought the nvidia card instead of an amd one (i was still on windows and didn't switch until march)
Me too, maybe i would be going on Resonite with Linux rn if i had done that
If you're wondering how to check, here's a starter article.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/check-and-monitor-active-gpu-in-linux/
Why wouldn't it warn you when installing that editor? Doesn't seem user friendly.
If a techy has troubles with it, imagine a grandma.
only editor I know of that has done that is zed. It was the reason to prompt me to install proper Vulcan drivers.
Makes sense. Seems to be the only editor which actually cares about performance
lol, imagine a grandma installing something. If she is, she's not your average grandma.
Getting the stack lined up for hw encode can be a mess, especially with cuda...
xed works tho?