I am looking at resintalling my OS (currently Mint) which I have been running for a few years.

Mint is great and I may end up going back; but was thinking of trying something new.

I want to be able to play with local models and agents; I have a pretty decent system.

  • AMD 3700X
  • 64 GB DDR4
  • AMD RX9070 16GB GPU
  • 2TB NVME SSD
  • A few TB of HDD's

What are some good options for easily running models and agents; I have been using ollama to run models; but I'm sure things have moved on since I begun playing with things a year ago.

Give me a few tips; I am going to have a bit of time on my hands over the next few months.

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[–] 1 point 4 days ago

I would say that the best os/distro is the one you're comfortable with. With that said, I would really iron out why you want to switch, like what you're looking for. Stability? Debian. Newest features asap? Arch. Mix? Fedora. General support? Probably any of them, but fedora or Debian if you want properly supported packages and not rely on the AUR. (You can use any of the derivatives, but I can't say they do anything special for me, so I stick to the core distros)

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