Compiling will go faster if you use a video card :-P

It’s funny I was just downloading TF today and saw this. Compiled it for Ubuntu (took 40 minutes, too).

Glad to see it since I think that means I can use CUDA 9.1.

It's pretty easy to get running on Windows since 1.0 or whatnot, in my experience. I just ran `pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow-gpu` and do that on every release and it works just dandy. You get a binary wheel of course, so the install is quick and painless.

I did have to install a new cudnn 7 DLL recently after moving to 1.5 (or 1.6) with CUDA 9. That's about it.

I don't use all the fancier tools though (e.g. loading from GCS/S3 buckets etc, just local data for me). But everything seems to works just fine these days, it seems.

Yea I managed to get it working pretty quickly and I was a complete newbie. Keras made it MUCH easier the second time around.

It works fine on Windows now.