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They occasionally have driver mismaatches between the upstream containers and the distro-provided driver. This happens because nVIDIA only supports Ubuntu LTS releases and Pop moves faster. I solved it forever by pinning nvidia's repos to a higher priority. Otherwise I can't figure out what "unmaintained project" you're talking about, or what "tooling standards" are.

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They are most likely referring to `tensorman` https://support.system76.com/articles/tensorman/ which is regrettably premised on the notion that you have any intention of using Tensorflow in the first place.

Unfortunately, the `tensorman` article shows up first (after several complaint/support threads) in a google search result for the subject https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nvidia%20docker%20pop%...

In all actuality, the correct article to reference is https://support.system76.com/articles/cuda/ but alas, this is presently broken on PopOS 21.04 unless you pin nvidia's repo's as you've suggested.

At the very least, an unpleasant experience. Probably some blame to be shared by system76 and nvidia.

It wouldn’t be a significant if the Pop OS developers weren’t telling users that they don’t need nvidia-docker. Of course, they can tell users whatever they want, but I’m not going to trust their OS if this is how they plan to handle things like this.

Since when have we told anyone that they don't need nvidia docker packages installed? You can validate that the Debian packaging has always shown nvidia-container-runtime/nvidia-docker as a recommends for CUDA support.

I am actually participating in a thread right now where contributors are happily trying to solve this issue. Their devs are very helpful if you reach out.

https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/1708

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