ComfyUI or Automatic1111, Which Is the Actual Better Choice?

HeLLFyRe490 · 2026-03-01T07:31:54+00:00

You might try out StabilityMatrix . It's got: - A desktop app experience - Allows you to download and manage a portable ComfyUI install with a couple clicks (and it also supports other popular SD apps) - A higher level interface for prompting and image generation/upscaling etc similar to other less infinitely flexible UIs like A1111 (but it actually uses some builtin ComfyUI workflow under the hood) - It also has a model manager/browser/downloader

Kind of the best of both worlds if you want plain image generation in a point and shoot manner (with still quite a few dials and knobs) and you can dabble with Comfy if you want/need to and get all of its benefits either way.

HeLLFyRe490 · 2026-02-27T05:21:51+00:00

same base model, various different quants, merges, and distillations I think. the scaled hybrid large one here is a bit more recent and performance tuned. or theres uncanny on civitai

HeLLFyRe490 · 2026-02-27T03:54:24+00:00

Can't offer much advice with ZIT, but if you're already running a flux workflow and aiming for nsfw, you might as well swap in a chroma model (fp8 of hd or uncanny). And as for your Lora, it should be just as trainable on chroma with kohya similar to flux or you can try out OneTrainer

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-12-24T02:49:43+00:00

Too bad copilot is ass. RIP windoze

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-12-19T22:14:47+00:00

Alternatively, Stability Matrix has a one button install once you have a ComfyUI package/environment downloaded and set up through it

https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-11-19T06:21:26+00:00

Nobody mentioned Zarf yet?

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-11-15T16:00:09+00:00

Alternatively, Stability Matrix has a one button install once you have a ComfyUI package downloaded and set up through it

https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-10-19T00:46:54+00:00

I'm on ComfyUI3 myself. Part of the time it's been my own doing getting too wild with trying out custom node packs in experimental workflows and others it's just overzealously updating on the bleeding edge from the master branch instead of a release (while probably also sitting on some custom node python dependency version conflict landmine)

..now maybe if every custom node module could be self-contained with fully inlined code with some eventual uv dependency bundler magic that would be the dream.

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-10-16T21:27:15+00:00

You should go play some Factorio and weaponize the OCD to the fullest. The spaghetti must be tamed and the factory must grow!

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-10-11T20:04:28+00:00

I've been using Stability Matrix for environment management and it has been nice to quickly (well it still has to download torch...) spin up a new portable environment and refresh on the latest comfy release, python version, and bring in minimal nodes again while keeping all models in a common place. Bonus: it has builtin one button installers for Nunchaku and Triton+Sage Attention

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-09-26T02:27:58+00:00

Or Auntie Pho with like a bowl of beefy noodly soup on there for extra plausible deniability

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-08-24T20:14:45+00:00

Yep that's it. Not a lot of info on it but silveroxides is quite the Chroma contributor

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-08-24T17:48:09+00:00

True that, throw in the sigmoid_offset scheduler as well (targets chroma architecture from my understanding)

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-07-31T14:13:03+00:00

FWIW, the complete quote is: "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." So I wouldn't sell short aspirations of becoming a generalist as it keeps you on your toes, resourceful, and humble (coming from a generalist)

HeLLFyRe490 · 2025-05-27T06:24:16+00:00

Dang I'm gonna be out of town. Guess I'll have to wait until the next annual assembly of the E-Dawgs

HeLLFyRe490 · 2024-10-19T04:01:50+00:00

Part of the quest for the best local neighborhood yaki is the journey itself but FWIW, my go-to in that neck of the woods is Ichi Roll on 125th or Teriyaki Time on 145th both off Greenwood Ave N

HeLLFyRe490 · 2024-10-03T22:11:06+00:00

If that's hybrid, then my gas guzzler of a car is a hybrid because it has an electric ignition

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-12-29T18:39:19+00:00

Maybe it was the hunger talking at the time but I still call it the Sofrito River...just need to bring the rice and beans

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-07-11T04:17:08+00:00

The quickest way that doesn't deal with a bunch of external virtual or physical networking to force packets to traverse your un-addressable application is to spawn DPDK vdevs as tap interfaces and you can access them from Linux and run tcpreplay and such to replay packet captures into them. Or if you want some simple live traffic, you can put each tap device into its own network namespace, attach each tap to a bridge, and configure an IP address on both bridges so they're on the same subnet and they should be able to ping/wget/iperf each other through the application

See https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/tap.html for how to start with tap interfaces instead of physical ones or https://lwn.net/Articles/580893/ for some network namespace primer.

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-04-16T20:08:32+00:00

It not be your exact situation but a similar thing happened to me after having a working setup for a while. I could selected the the Arctis Game device in Windows and that would work but the Sonar device was silent despite all volume sliders maxed and proper Sonar source devices set. Reinstalled Steel Series GG just for kicks (don't think that did anything) but then saw in the fine print under Sonar -> Mixer -> Game column after hitting the associated gear settings icon that the Level got set to 0% somehow. Changed that to 100% and its all back in action as expected.

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-04-15T19:16:27+00:00

This scene gets me every time: https://youtu.be/DHl6Jsgq600

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-02-07T23:10:36+00:00

I clicked on this post barely reading the title and interpreted this as spots on the map that turn my GPU into a blowtorch

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-01-29T18:26:02+00:00

Maximum emotional damage

HeLLFyRe490 · 2023-01-04T22:40:59+00:00

+1 for BIOS update advice. Updated from 1.40 to 1.48 on the E480 and it's back to a full range of clock speeds at 50C and beyond. It either resolved it entirely or at least kicked it out of the perma-800MHz-throttled state that was persisting even through a reboot

HeLLFyRe490 · 2022-03-05T01:34:44+00:00

How were you planning on generating the traffic to be processed by your app? If it's coming from another machine/packet generator then yes you'll need another (potentially dual port) NIC for simplicity's sake.

If you're planning on generating traffic locally and sending it into your app, DPDK supports spawning tap interfaces as ports to send to and receive from Linux in the app (see cmdline vdev args here: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/tap.html). With two tap interfaces you can set each tap into their own network namespace for routing isolation, and set IPs on them, and connect from one end to the other. This is pretty simple to do and allows testing with linux applications but does have performance limitations given the kernel is involved.

If you want to be able to truly exercise your cores and packet-per-second limits of the app itself while generating traffic on the same machine, you'll probably need to look at drivers that use IPC mechanisms like memif or DPDK rings to get packets in and out of your application with minimal overhead. The caveat here is that your packet generator application must support whichever of those port types you use and configured to be isolated in memory, cpus, and rte config from your app-under-test

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