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This is finally the year of the Linux desktop. However, it is running on Windows as WSL.

With this support now for CUDA now, it can be argued that the best, most versatile developer experience is on Windows. You now have access to all the Windows specific tools (such as Visual Studio) as well as all the Linux tools in a very seamless environment.

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> This is finally the year of the Linux desktop. However, it is running on Windows as WSL.

One more thing. Given that there's lots of distros, which Linux distro/desktop has won this year? Right, the winning Linux desktop is Windows, thanks to WSL2.

How unexpected of Microsoft.

> This is finally the year of the Linux desktop. However, it is running on Windows as WSL.

This is finally the year of Linux on the Windows desktop!

plus telemetry!

Next step, Nvidia will support only WSL and not normal Linux? Good riddance, we need less blobs.

Actually, this might be a great price discriminator for NVidia. They have tried to differentiate their consumer and professional GPUs so they can charge different prices. I could see NVidia only providing WSL/Windows drivers for their consumer GPUs. If you want native Linux, then you would have to buy a professional GPU at higher cost.

By great, I mean great for NVidia, not for us.

I'd say it's going to be great for Linux, since usage of Nvidia will drop and progress will accelerate, because no one will have to deal with blob idiosyncrasies caused by Nvidia refusing to upstream their driver.

With Intel joining AMD on high end GPU scene with open drivers, it's Nvidia who will be the loser with their dinosaur blob approach.

As games are running both on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, but CUDA is NVIDIA only (and supported by lots of languages and libraries), as a programmer I don't see how AMD could disrupt NVIDIA's developer friendliness/lock in (unless AMD provides a great CUDA implementation).

There is a need to move away from CUDA to begin with. It's an ugly solution since it's tied to Nvidia.

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