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Lots of machine learning workflows support Linux better than Windows, if they run on Windows at all. (e.g. https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/quicks
by fg137 4mo ago
Lots of machine learning workflows support Linux better than Windows, if they run on Windows at all. (e.g. https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart/ https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart/ )
DGX Spark runs Linux, and nobody is going to install Windows on that machine. This laptop got it backwards.
If someone decides to run Ollama for local inference with this laptop, they fit perfectly into the "has too much money to waste" bracket, which is addressed by a few other comments in the discussion.
- chris_money202 4mo agoWSL
- rvz 4mo agoBelieve it or not, Windows (WSL) is the best Linux distro and Nvidia knows that.
- fg137 4mo agoIt often works, but you always lose something compared to native Linux.
- pjmlp 4mo agoNah, before WSL I was already using a mix of Virtual Box and VMware Workstation, between home and work computers. Installing Linux natively on laptops has always had some specific features not working. Even my Asus netbook, which came with Linux pre-installed, had wlan issues that I learned to work around with, and the driver never supported the same OpenGL version as the Windows one (3.3 vs 4.1).
- fg137 4mo agoMy comment was saying you lose something (e.g. performance) when using WSL2 compared to native Linux on a proper workstation. Linux driver has always been an issue on laptops, but that's not the concern for running Python code.
- lostmsu 4mo agovllm-windows works well enough
- woctordho 4mo agoThere is vllm-windows, and it's just as fast as on Linux. BTW I'm the maintainer of triton-windows.