Surprising Ubuntu Setup: NVIDIA 5090 PC Becomes the Easiest AI Rig
_xjdr · x · 2026-07-27
A developer sharing experiences from extensive cross-platform client testing reported a counterintuitive finding: a desktop PC equipped with an NVIDIA 5090 and various proprietary drivers running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was the easiest machine to set up over the past year, surpassing the setup experience of Macs, Windows, and cloud servers.
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