I've been slowly setting up my new computer. It's a nice machine. Windows 7 gives it a 7.8 user experience rating. Setting up windows was quite easy. I have two SSD. I had intended to load Linux on one drive and Windows on the other. I tried to do that several times. I may yet get that to work but for right now I ended up loading both on one drive. Installing Ubuntu Linux on the same drive with Windows was quite easy as well but I had to use an access point and the ethernet connection. I'm still having trouble getting the display driver installed and haven't even tried to load the usb WiFi driver.
I tried installing the driver for my GTX970 using the instructions at ask ubuntu. After rebooting things looked normal until I logged in. After logging in all I got was a background. I can move the cursor around using the mouse but that's it.
I tried rebooting Linux in recovery mode but I couldn't roll back my driver changes. I think I'll have to reinstall Linux and try again. Unfortunately I don't know Linux well enough to muck with it.
On the good side, Civ 5 plays much better in Windows on the new machine. I hadn't realized just how marginally playable it was on a machine with a 5.1 user experience rating.
Still, I want to start learning Convolutional Neural Networks using tools like Torch 7 on a machine with enough CUDA cores to not be too painful.
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