In case this isn't obvious, GPU support in WSL will be incredibly useful for doing machine learning using PyTorch, CUDAnative in Julia, etc., where GNU/Linux is the primary target and best supported. It will allow folks on Windows to take advantage of GPUs, without bleeding developer time and energy to support ML libraries on Windows natively. So if if WSL GPU support is good, then GNU/Linux ML tool development will *improve* because the audience for those tools will dramatically increase to include the W
OK, calm down. It is you who is being the fanboi here.
Windows can quite happily do GPU-accelerated machine learning. This is talking about extending that to the Windows Subsystem for Linux which allows Linux applications to run on Windows 10. That means that the Linux version of PyTorch (for example) can run on Windows and still use the GPU. That said, PyTorch has a Windows version and it also has GPU support too, but the Linux one is supposedly simpler to set up.
You're right. I can't wait to see what Microsoft comes up with next that will justify spending a boat-load of licensing cash on a terrible operating system that now lets incompetent admins who are afraid of non-GUI interfaces finally do what other operating systems have done for a long time. Maybe they can "invent" some sort of package management system to make managing their operating system easier or something.
Derp. Too late: https://developers.slashdot.or... [slashdot.org]
I just stood up a brand new "windows dom
Yeah, and you're not really dispelling the notion that you're an incompetent Windows admin who only got into IT because you can 'point and click' slightly better than the average monkey. Those who can, engineer. Those who can't run Windows because learning stuff is hard.
How can you decide what I am when I have never said anything about what I use. I am a Linux user, I'm just not a dick about it. Of the six computers that I have in my room right now, four run Linux, one is a Mac and the other runs Windows. My server runs Linux. My development system runs Linux. Even my gaming system runs Linux - and if that doesn't show dedication to the cause then I don't know what would!
The point is that no operating system is irredeemably bad. I can jump on any of my computers and do any
> The point is that no operating system is irredeemably bad.
Let me know when Windows becomes the Right Tool for the Right Job instead of the tool you have to use because shit software vendors don't know how to write cross-platform software or shit admins choose it because they've never bothered to learn the alternatives. I ran a ~2,500 device Windows network for 15 years before I finally said "screw it" and converted the network almost entirely to Linux and BSD. Routers are all BSD (actual BSD, not "
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
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I have been waiting for GPUs to be supported under WSL, and prayers have been answered.
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In case this isn't obvious, GPU support in WSL will be incredibly useful for doing machine learning using PyTorch, CUDAnative in Julia, etc., where GNU/Linux is the primary target and best supported. It will allow folks on Windows to take advantage of GPUs, without bleeding developer time and energy to support ML libraries on Windows natively. So if if WSL GPU support is good, then GNU/Linux ML tool development will *improve* because the audience for those tools will dramatically increase to include the W
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OK, calm down. It is you who is being the fanboi here.
Windows can quite happily do GPU-accelerated machine learning. This is talking about extending that to the Windows Subsystem for Linux which allows Linux applications to run on Windows 10. That means that the Linux version of PyTorch (for example) can run on Windows and still use the GPU. That said, PyTorch has a Windows version and it also has GPU support too, but the Linux one is supposedly simpler to set up.
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Yeah, that really doesn't dispell the notion that you are a rabid fanboi.
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How can you decide what I am when I have never said anything about what I use. I am a Linux user, I'm just not a dick about it. Of the six computers that I have in my room right now, four run Linux, one is a Mac and the other runs Windows. My server runs Linux. My development system runs Linux. Even my gaming system runs Linux - and if that doesn't show dedication to the cause then I don't know what would!
The point is that no operating system is irredeemably bad. I can jump on any of my computers and do any
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