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I mean Linux is an option but haven't people been saying nvida drivers are a huge hassle to use on Linux?
Nah. There are some nvidia issues with wayland (that are starting to get cleared up), and nvidia's drivers not being open-source rubs some people the wrong way, but getting nvidia and cuda up and running on linux is pretty easy/reliable in my experience.
WSL is a bit different but there are steps to get that up and running too.
They can be, I suppose. However, the AI libraries that I was tinkering with seemed to all be based around Ubuntu and Nvidia. With Docker, GPU passthrough is much better under Linux and Nvidia.
WSL improved things a bit after I got an older GTX 1650. For my AMD GPU, ROCm support is (was?) garbage under Windows using either Docker or WSL. I don't remember having much difficulty with Nvidia drivers though... I think there might have been some strange dependency problems I was able to work through though.
AMD GPU passthrough on Windows to Docker containers was a no-go. I remember that fairly clear though.
My apologies. It has been a few months since I messed with this stuff.