The llama.cpp OpenVINO Gentoo Nightmare
I used to think AMD’s ROCm was a nightmare to get working. I was wrong. I managed to get ROCm running in less than a day with minimal effort just by poking around on Google. Like NVIDIA, it is distribution-agnostic, even if it lacks maturity. Then I met Intel’s AI stack. My definition of “nightmare” has been officially updated. It took almost a week to get llama.cpp’s OpenVINO working on Gentoo. The software suffers from a severe case of “Ubuntunitis”—the delusional belief that Ubuntu is the only distribution in existence. This is the hallmark of companies with zero real Linux strategy. They treat Linux like Windows, showing a complete lack of willingness to learn how professional software development for the Linux actually works. ...