ronï¼ bclug.ca wrote:
Or consider something wholly new like Clear Linix? Isn't that an Intel distro designed as a dev platform for building software for Intel chips?
My main systems are AMD CPUs so Intel fine tuning won' t help me. I thought Clear was optimized for 64bit x86 systems but yeah it might just be something on which to run Intel benchmarks. My install has to be Ubuntu-derived because most of the Linux AI stuff seems to prefer it. I have no doubt that the Arch and Fedora communities have figured out how to do these things; but I'm interested into minimizing OS steps so I can spend more time playing with Ollama and friends,
I'm still using KDEneon and quite happy with it.
I moved off of Neon because IMO they were too frequent with the KDE updates and too infrequent with the Ubuntu ones. Tuxedo seems to do an extra bit of testing -- so that its KDE is just a step behind Neon's but seems to be a little more stable. I could come back to Neon but an happy with Tuxedo and will probably be sticking with it.
I think I switched from snaps to deb packages for Thunderbird and Firefox because:
I refuse to use snaps for anything. I wouldn't use flatpack for browsers but can be persuaded to use them for other things. - Evan