I’ve used a Jetson Nano, so I know enough about how “reliable” Nvidia is. Pooled in money with my college mates for my Bachelor’s final-year project to get an old one in good condition. I will never will never buying anything from Nvidia, because the software experience was dog-shit.
Linux image was stuck on Ubuntu, 20.04, CUDA didn’t work with OpenCV of the box, I had to build it locally, which took an entire day. Enabling the repository would fuck the entire image when I try to download Python libraries, and I would have to reflash it on the SD Card. And well, could I use a different ARM image from, say Fedora IOT? Well yes, but then the CUDA drivers are no longer accessible, because those drivers were never open-sourced, making it useless for computer vision. And what if I accidentally update the kernel? Again, CUDA just stops working. They just abandon their products on their own whims.
I also have a laptop with an Nvidia mobile GPU, and my Linux experience is so utterly terrible with it, I’ve just decided to disable my discrete GPU and use only the integrated Intel UHD driver.
I’ve used a Jetson Nano, so I know enough about how “reliable” Nvidia is. Pooled in money with my college mates for my Bachelor’s final-year project to get an old one in good condition. I will never will never buying anything from Nvidia, because the software experience was dog-shit.
Linux image was stuck on Ubuntu, 20.04, CUDA didn’t work with OpenCV of the box, I had to build it locally, which took an entire day. Enabling the repository would fuck the entire image when I try to download Python libraries, and I would have to reflash it on the SD Card. And well, could I use a different ARM image from, say Fedora IOT? Well yes, but then the CUDA drivers are no longer accessible, because those drivers were never open-sourced, making it useless for computer vision. And what if I accidentally update the kernel? Again, CUDA just stops working. They just abandon their products on their own whims.
I also have a laptop with an Nvidia mobile GPU, and my Linux experience is so utterly terrible with it, I’ve just decided to disable my discrete GPU and use only the integrated Intel UHD driver.