The context of this poll is the fact that Nvidia announced a supercomputer for the masses during the CES 2025 in January, called the DIGITS.

The idea is to have a powerful computer at home or in your research lab that can run some of the largest language models out there at good speed. While the claims failed to showcase any figure, the idea of having such a device at home is alluring. But would you consider buying a Nvidia standalone device nowadays, knowing that they have track record of no proper software support beyond a year or so? (that’s the case for the Jetson boards, for example).

While a near majority of our audience has no interest in such devices, the remaining opinion is fairly negative. It looks like in the Linux community people are well aware that Nvidia is not doing their job to maintain their hardware with proper software to prevent things from turning to e-waste faster than smartphones. We covered that topic at length in our recent review of The Nvidia Way book.

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