Beautiful response.

Thank you. I’m working on transitioning from Mint to Fedora, and I’m happy to get away from decoding 3 layers of “cutesy” codenames to figure out what platform I’m on - “Victoria” / “Jammy” / “Buster” or whatever.

Coming from Windows 7, that was one of the things that instantly made me want to switch back.

I agree with CameronDev, not so much on the capacity, but the bandwidth. At 100+ Gb, the Ryzen/Core platforms are really holding you back with their weak I/O.

If you need that much memory, you might be better off picking up a used Xeon/Epyc from Ebay. Their CPU speeds are lower, but the quad channel RAM could make up for it, depending on what you’re trying to do.

I’m in the process of switching from Ubuntu/Mint to Fedora. I’m trying it on my laptop first; if that goes well, I’ve got 2 others to switch over.

https://tchncs.de/en/ has a pretty good landing page.

Seems like that should be illegal, like changing the odometer on a car, but what do I know.

Nice guide. I’m glad to see they mentioned GPU switching. It’s really underrated.

Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].

I’m like “what’d we ever do to you?”

Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.

Probably better to ask on [email protected]. Ollama should be able to give you a decent LLM, and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) will let it reference your dataset.

The only issue is that you asked for a smart model, which usually means a larger one, plus the RAG portion consumes even more memory, which may be more than a typical laptop can handle. Smaller models have a higher tendency to hallucinate - produce incorrect answers.

Short answer - yes, you can do it. It’s just a matter of how much RAM you have available and how long you’re willing to wait for an answer.

I know right? It’s like he and Linus(LTT) are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Long story short, it’s not worth it.

You probably don’t want it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2jKKFUnycA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3frnBoqqI_Q

In addition, manufacturers will make a smaller and easier to lose format.