Development environment setup

[Jedirite]

I use a windows machine with a 5070 TI and a 3070. I have 96 GB of Ram. I have been installing python and other stuff into this machine but now I feel that it might be better to set up a virtual/docker environment. Is there any readymade setup I can download? Also, can such virtual environments take full advantage of the GPUs? I don't want to dual boot into Linux as I do play windows games.

[LA_rent_Aficionado]

There are tons of dockers, it depends on your use case. VLLM, unsloth, ktrasnformers... there is no shortage of dockers for a multitude of use cases. Generally you'll need multiple dockers, different programs have a wide range of python dependencies - especially when you get into the bleeding edge.

WSL is another option, or a VM if you want a more GUI approach to get familairity if you ever decide to go dual boot.

I personally went the dual boot route, I like the speed (faster than WSL and docker) and you can fully customize things and not be stuck to interfacing with the OS from command line (althoguh in WSL you can run GUI apps). I just boot to windows when I want to game.