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Re:Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018) by Tenoke on Monday February 25, 2019 @09:30AM (#19245826)
>Stop buying NVidia hardware. They actively sabotage Linux development. AMD is much better in that regard. Buy AMD instead.

Sadly if you work with Deep Learning buying AMD is a surefire way to make most of the work published by others unusable without serious effort.

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Re:Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018) by rbanffy on Monday February 25, 2019 @11:18AM (#19246655)
Is the number crunching side as terrible as the visualization side?
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Re:Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018) by pjmlp on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:25PM (#19248005)
OpenCL is very limited versus CUDA in terms of language support, tooling and libraries.
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