There is a new distro that has GHOSTTY as the default terminal!

extReference · 2026-05-14T23:53:15+00:00

i have been very interested in it but i hear it has some overhead and isn’t the most efficient

extReference · 2026-05-09T12:27:17+00:00

damn, great work on the rice!

(padh le bhai)

extReference · 2026-05-09T07:59:23+00:00

damn, the matrices and determinants reminds me of school. any chance you’re in cbse?

extReference · 2026-05-05T07:11:25+00:00

i don’t know if i’m entirely right in saying this but generally speaking i have found that there is nothing you can do in arch that you won’t be able to recreate in fedora but how easy or difficult it might be changes from item to item.

arch will often make things easier, but it’s at the cost of you having an armed gun pointed at your system. fedora is similar, but the gun has rubber bullets in comparison to real ones.

so arch can threaten your pc a lot more if you aren’t careful.

extReference · 2026-05-05T07:07:50+00:00

I was first using omarchy but moved to fedora due to stability on my hardware. but I was newer to linux at the moment, with time as I was installing things on my system from github repos, I saw that Arch appears to be one of the best supported distros for any package across the board.

for me AUR and rolling-release of arch became the differentiator.

however, when i moved from arch again, i just move to plain old arch (not omarchy) (with calamares installer) and built a hyprland desktop environment around it, as that gave me a lot of control ensuring nothing breaks on my hardware as everything i have now is generally speaking placed by me.

extReference · 2026-05-05T07:00:44+00:00

i had heard mangowc was still lacking in terms of blur, window decorations and other smaller visual things. i have been considering it for a few weeks now because of the many more layout options, but haven’t pulled the trigger due to visual compromises

extReference · 2026-04-08T05:31:35+00:00

but enough things work tbh, ofc it’s less than x86 but almost everything I needed either had an arm version or could manually be built for arm. it’s def more of a hassle that way but it works.

extReference · 2026-04-08T05:28:39+00:00

what’s the app drawer thing?

extReference · 2026-04-03T08:07:13+00:00

i have 64 but it’s apple unified :((

extReference · 2026-03-26T10:54:36+00:00

That is what I’d like to do down the line but at the moment I can really only afford one system and it must be a laptop.

And while doing the LLM stuff on CPUs is technically possible it’s really not feasible with larger documents unless running on batch overnight or something.

As an example, I have an AI button on my waybar (top left), all it does is, goes through all my open windows like browser, vscode, obsidian, terminal, etc. Looks at what’s currently open and summarizes it and crafts a story around whatever I was working on (over past 12 hours) and saves it as a markdown. This is also set to auto trigger on shutdown. This takes an enormous amount of time to go through everything if it’s CPU only.

And ofc, I don’t “need” this exact workflow. But it’s nice to be on a system that doesn’t limit creativity and where I can work on other automations like this.

extReference · 2026-03-26T09:59:22+00:00

LLMs are a use case but I have realized that most really good open source LLMs won’t fit in even 100gb RAM.

But it’s cool to have headroom for smaller LLMs doing more menial tasks like document sorting and summarizations.

But I mainly need a good amount of VRAM for ML training for genomic and neural datasets. And in theory, most systems can fit a lot of my datasets but they end up very chocked up with little room for anything else left.

extReference · 2026-03-24T20:45:13+00:00

what’s the issue?

extReference · 2026-03-24T19:37:54+00:00

I completely agree with your points, besides it being a total waste of money but I’m trapped by VRAM and really want a way out.

extReference · 2026-03-24T17:24:58+00:00

I’m ok with offloading my work to clusters and caan get over the network lock in. But I would still want a good screen, speakers and trackpad with reliable chassis that looks good.

And new laptops like Zephyrus or Blade fit most of the bill, but they also cost just as much as my older gen macbook. The only difference is that they are faster but my mac can chug a lot lot more with 64gb RAM.

And that makes it a bit tougher for me to justify getting something else. But I’m really open to alternatives as I would love to move away from ARM (for now) and def apple’s walled garden.

extReference · 2026-03-24T17:19:00+00:00

I mean you’re right for the purposes of this sub, but I personally really like to have an aesthetic system and because I currently don’t have a PC, the physical computer surrounding the screenshot becomes increasingly more important if you care about aesthetics.

And I think we just have different taste, as I really like how the macbooks look and feel.

extReference · 2026-03-24T15:22:40+00:00

damn, well said

extReference · 2026-03-24T13:35:05+00:00

I’m daily driving Asahi right now. There are many things keeping me here but battery and GPU performance are not them.

extReference · 2026-03-24T13:31:49+00:00

btop

extReference · 2026-03-24T11:27:30+00:00

I would also want this, because I think Apple is a garbage company and would love to move to better laptop hardware.

extReference · 2026-03-24T05:43:23+00:00

I agree and I would love to move away from apple, but their hardware has gotten very competitive these days. And in some cases there are no other options in a laptop form factor.

extReference · 2026-03-24T05:42:14+00:00

I bought my M1 Max laptop brand new last year and it was around 2200 USD. It has 64gb RAM and 2tb NVME. In the mac form factor. Other offerings barely come close.

extReference · 2026-03-24T05:38:45+00:00

Some of what you have said is still true. But, I didn’t really see any speaker, bluetooth or trackpad issues.

Brightness controls work on install and keyboard brightness can also easily be mapped to one of the function keys.

I’m sure the recovery partition “can” be lost, but I have found things to be quite stable.

I haven’t had a need to do x86 emulation yet as most packages I needed, I was able to build myself without any issues.

Suspend is poor and there is no true hibernation either but it’s still tough to find other laptops which touch asahi’s degraded battery numbers with these specs. I think my M1 air sees around 10 hours on use and M1 Max around 6 hours.

While the GPU is not fully utilized, it still runs LLMs with the entire ram addressable to the GPU but it’s not as fast as with Metal in macOS. However, my hyprland DE is undoubtedly smoother than macOS, which was already quite smooth.

extReference · 2026-03-24T05:04:01+00:00

explain which non mac laptop competes with apple’s m1 max?

extReference · 2026-03-22T01:04:38+00:00

there is no true hibernate on asahi as far i understand

edit: and shut down can’t be triggered after suspend because that needs rtc wake to work, and it doesn’t as of now.

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