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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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I used a mix of Ubuntu, Fedora, and Windows for a decade or so but recently switched over to CachyOS and it's pretty nice, installing / updating graphics drivers is easy as and having access to the AUR is pretty neat.
Switching to a new distro would also be a good time to explore better alternatives to ollama too, plain llama.cpp is decent (got it running on my laptop rtx 3060) and Strata is quite neat for supported MoE models - runs a bit faster than llama.cpp on my oculink 9060 xt + 64gb ddr4.