Recommendation on choosing between Bluefin GDX or Aurora

Bluefin
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I am considering moving from Fedora 41 to Universal Blue Workstation options. I know Nvidia releases a CUDA repo for Fedora every two releases (they did 37, 39 and now 41), so I imagine Bluefin GDX will also follow this cycle. Likewise, I don’t mind personally because that’s what I do with Fedora as well, switch every two releases.

As far as DE is concerned: Personally I prefer KDE, but I understand Gnome is preferred for Bluefin for stability reasons, albeit since Fedora 42 KDE, is as supported as Gnome. Do you plan to offer options for Bluefin as well?

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What options you mean?

Bluefin is gnome and aurora is the kde version.

There is work in progress to bring Aurora LTS (based on CentOS) to accompany Bluefin LTS for a KDE spin.

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Is just that Aurora does not have an AI-workflows version with CUDA installed by default. Or so I think.

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ah yes. this is currently missing but the its coming

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aurora does have cuda support. If anything else is required / missing I do not know but you can use the gpu for compute out of the box.

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You can always try them in a VM or external drive while you are still on Fedora WS 41. That’s what I did for a few months while I got comfortable enough to commit.

Why not try them both (aurora and bluefin)? I landed on bluefin-nvidia-dx:stable because I prefer GNOME and wanted something on par with WS but lag a little (weekly updates instead of daily).