- AI-specific tooling (PyTorch, etc.)
- Languages (Python, R, etc.)
- AI-specific hardware support (GPUs, DPUs, etc.)
- Active community / open source collaboration
- Linux OS vendor service and support
- Large AI-partner ecosystem
- Easy to access / purchase bits for developer machine
- Access to latest innovation in AI stack (i.e. latest versions of accelerator drivers/libraries such as Pytorch)
- Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions
- Real-time access to additional capabilities via in-app purchases (content, tools, code, etc.)
- Integrates with my existing software development tool chain
- Contains only open source AI utilities and libraries