Wanting to hold Python+C ecosystem more accountable is fair I think, at least from my own experience around half a year ago, Anaconda doesn't work and you need a Dockerfile for any sort of reproducibility, which can have issues since GPU with docker isn't that easy. And this means developers from the vendors working with Anaconda, for example, on solving the issue rather than just hoping for contributors to do it. If AMD were to make easy, reproducible builds without root or VM a reality, that would be reason enough to try their hardware. If not, hopefully Nvidia does and then there really would be no way across the moat for me at least.

Also, just to name it, it’s ridiculous that a specific graphics card manages to restrict the version of gproto that you’re using. You don’t have this problem with nvidia drivers, since cuda stuff is much less fiddly. AMD needs to pull a finger out and fix the bugs in their stack that make it so fragile like this.

Or rather, I install no versions of libraries because NixOS will put them all in the store in different folders, and will compile the executable to use the correct path (or patch the elf when needed)

it has an issue with pip because it's allergic to just randomly executing things as part of package management, but pip in general is wtf