> No idea why Nvidia has such crusty torch prebuilds on their own hardware.
NVidia is a hardware company at heart.
They do create and sell amazing hardware.
But like almost all hardware makers I know, they totally suck at software. Their ecosystem is an effing nightmare (drivers, compilers, etc...). It's a pure culture issue, where:
a) software always comes as an afterthought
b) the folks in charge of engineering are largely HW folks. They like like HW engineers and the resulting software stack looks exactly like a piece of silicon: opaque, static, inflexible and most important of all, never designed to be understood/looked at/reworked.
I suspect the reason why all their software is closed-source is not for commercial reasons, they're just ashamed as a company to show the world how shitty their SWE skills are.
NVidia is a hardware company at heart.
They do create and sell amazing hardware.
But like almost all hardware makers I know, they totally suck at software. Their ecosystem is an effing nightmare (drivers, compilers, etc...). It's a pure culture issue, where:
I suspect the reason why all their software is closed-source is not for commercial reasons, they're just ashamed as a company to show the world how shitty their SWE skills are.