I remain a fanatically committed AMD buyer for their linux support, but wow the cost of it in the machine learning space has been painful. It really hurts when all the tutorials are for Nvidia and nothing seems to work.

I suspect the ROCm situation has not improved since last time I checked, based on their documentation. The installation guide [0] is a bit of a mess. It looks like they are targeting ROCm at existing ROCm users rather than finding ways to convince people to become ROCm users; nothing there is useful introductory material. The opening is basically marketing babble too. Or possibly someone with a history in the GNU projects lineage of terrible recursive names.

It just doesn't look like they've got a leadership figure trying to bring people in to their ecosystem right now. I dunno, maybe the API isn't intended for interested developers.

[0] https://docs.amd.com/bundle/ROCm-Installation-Guide-v5.4/pag... - opens with "ROCm is a brand name for the ROCm open software platform (for software) or the ROCm open platform ecosystem (includes hardware like FPGAs or other CPU architectures)".