[user3939382]

Then you’re locked into the ecosystem and whims of signed proprietary drivers so in a way you have no control whatsoever.

[alecco]

Sure. But Intel's beancounter board is way more scary [1] and moving from CUDA to AMD's ROCm isn't that hard, anyway.

[1] "Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing - Intel's Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand" https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-officially-introduce... (2022)