Which operating system to run your AI stack on — comparisons, releases and daily distro news.
Best NVIDIA CUDA compatibility, widest tutorials, 5-year support. If you only want things to work: start here.
Fast kernel and Mesa updates, first-class PyTorch packaging. Great on AMD Radeon (ROCm).
Ultra-stable base for headless GPU servers and clusters. Older packages — pair with upstream CUDA repos.
Declarative environments: same flake equals the same ML stack on every machine. Steep curve, unmatched reproducibility.
NVIDIA ISO with hybrid graphics handled out of the box. Based on Ubuntu underneath.
M-series Macs run 30-70B class models via MLX/Ollama thanks to unified memory. No CUDA — some frameworks lag.
WSL2 plus CUDA works for most Python stacks; native Windows only for tools that demand it.
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