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how easy is it to setup ?

I thought I'd print a little ad for kids in my neighborhood to use contribute their gpu

It's not too hard just a little funky. Though sometimes they run out of work to do when it gets popular.

If you're using Linux, it can be launched with a single command line under Docker.

For CPU, that is. Trying to make it work on my GPU took me to driver hell -- OpenCL support seems to be an entirely separate driver from normal graphics, and the newest packages that might support my GPU (Intel) are not even available for Ubuntu, let alone Mint.

I've just given up trying to make it work with Radeon RX 580 under linux (and I'm unlikely to waste any more electricity by running it on my windows box). I tried amdgpu-pro - opencl was there but folding@home refused to even detect it. I tried rocm - same nonsense.

Isn't basically everything with docker? Maybe two lines with a volume.

Installing docker itself is a whole different matter:

https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/

Pretty much. But a lot of people already have Docker installed.

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