My mind went to text editor and I was wondering why Vim would be running on the GPU
What are they talking about?
Probably the editor of aoe
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.
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.
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.
It basically mostly already exists, but it’s in Java:
This has just reminded me that I’ve been running Sunshine/Moonlight for the past couple of months, using the CPU to encode the video stream and wondering why it keep throttling and dying.
In my defence, I’m a dumbass and I know basically nothing about how to build software, and I’m running Kubuntu 25.10, which Sunshine doesn’t officially support. So I built it wrong.
Anyway, I’ve fixed it now and even with my venerable GTX 1060 it runs like butter.
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: 🤡
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.
