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ndiddyyesterday at 7:29 PM1 replyview on HN

All of those use the same nVidia chip and the same nVidia provided Linux distro. Personally I'd be wary of spending $3500+ on a system that relies on nVidia support. They previously released an AI focused SBC, the Jetson Nano, that shipped with a custom distro based on the already aging Ubuntu 18.04, then abandoned support for it after a few years. All the dependencies required to run ML/AI stuff became outdated, and the hardware is now basically useless. It's possible to run mainline Linux on it, but you can't do anything with the GPU since that requires a special one-off driver that never got upstreamed.


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Octoth0rpeyesterday at 7:45 PM

> All of those use the same nVidia chip and the same nVidia provided Linux distro

The system76 one uses an ampere chip, but a discrete nvidia card; so not quite the same.

Generally I agree, I do not mix nvidia/linux. The point is that arm workstations are clearly being produced by many different vendors at this point.

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