in general, you would want something fast (probably something that fits in your GPU/VRAM) so you can get suggestions as fast as you can type. for chat, you’ll probably want the most intelligent/lorgest model you can run, it’s likely fine if it’s running on the CPU/RAM since the quality of an individual answer is more important than the speed in which many small answers can be generated. so, probably qwen for both, but, different sizes/quant for different use cases.

are you looking for autocomplete or chat?

games! in maybe 95% of cases you can find an open alternative to some (non-game) software, but with games it’s the opposite.

i would say that the main proprietary softwares i still use, are video games

after a very long time, i’ve stumbled upon this https://thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-bluetooth-40-micro-adapter-tpe-usbbluv4

did they open source it?

IIRC it’s not open source

that’s true, but what does it have to do with the post?

thanks!

ive used gentoo a lot, a big downside is the amount of time spent compiling, if you need to install a lot of softwares frequently it could be difficult. (though you can use --binpkg options to install binaries and some packages have a packagename-bin variant, and flatpaks + appimages are a thing) if your software needs rarely change than it can be fairly painless.

the customization and speed are rivaled by almost nothing except for something like LFS. the package availability is great. you can also use custom patches easily as well as disable or enable specific software features (USE flags) . you can choose what packages stay at stable versions, testing versions, or even bleeding edge (-9999 version tags)

for a more “standard” distro, i would recommend artix. it’s an arch based distro with your choice of init system (as a gentoo fan ill recommend openrc). i used the graphical installer to get it setup and it was a breeze. due to not being source based, and having access to the AUR you can quickly install any package you want.

ive had it in my laptop for years and have been recently using it on my main pc for about a month.

additionally regardless of distro (besides immutable ones), id recommend installing timeshift for backups, it actually doesn’t require btrfs! ive used it with both ext4 and F2FS and doing a quick backup before an update has definitely saved me a few headaches.

feel free to ask me any follow up questions

isn’t grayjay still proprietary?

awesome issue

isn’t this one proprietary?

super exciting, but in a way i have kind of “lost interest” in frontier models, since the resources needed to run them is beyond what most people have access to. i mostly see the future in smaller models (like 3.1 8B for example), anyone else share this feeling?

also unrelated but, i was previously librecat on here (my last instance stopped working)