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Or they might switch to Linux where that all 'just works'.

For those who think this is sarcasm, the last update to the nVidia drivers fixed most of my issues on Ubuntu. I only have a 980 and not doing machine learning professionally, but this thing handles any game I throw at it.

> I only have a 980

It's such a tribute to the modern semi conductor industry that you can write that so casually, and yet, we're talking about an approximately 5 TFLOPS co-processor here.

Not all that long ago that would have been a rack full of very expensive hardware and not all that long before that half a floor in a DC.

Welcome to the future.

And you're right, definitely not sarcastic.

For gaming or home use its a big deal, for professionals, why waste time with as single 2 year old card.

A card like that is still more than powerful enough to learn with. That's technically still 'home' use but as a professional entering a field you could get a lot of mileage out of it, especially if you already have it.

I wouldn't buy one new or second hand to study with today.

Yeah that's fine too. But for those with development work that entails Xcode usage, constant OS switching & time spent managing files & using (some great) apps is better served with macOS.

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