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		ActorNightly 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source The big difference is hardware access. I used to do VFIO with hardware passthrough so I could have linux but still run windows software like CAD that takes advantage of the gfx card. That was a pain to set up and use. The other way, its very simple. WSL2 can run ML tasks with just a tiny bit of overhead in moving the data to the card.

lostmsu 8 months ago [–]

PyTorch and most of other ML stuff have native Windows ports.

ActorNightly 8 months ago | [–]

Yes but the point is to not do dev on windows, because window "terminal" sucks

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