This seems suspicious

Found 1 remapped NVMe devices.
Switch your BIOS from RAID to AHCI mode to use them.

Have you setup a RAID?

Yes, but some do things better than others.

Ehhhhhh, kinda. “better” is highly subjective. Distros are “bundles of software” and a philosophy about how things are installed / when they are installed / what their default settings are / etc.

A lot of people, especially newbs and less technical folks, grossly misunderstand what those differences are and what they mean.

CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most.

Bullshit. Not that it’s btrfs by default but that it does it “better” than anyone else is ridiculous. It uses the same kernel driver and user-land tools as my Pop_OS install which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and which, believe it or not, is running btrfs just fine.

Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4

Kid - I remember when ext4 was released. Very exciting to have a journaling filesystem at the time…

Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…

“excels” at meaning “has steam installed by default” and “makes nvidia drivers easier to install” you mean.

My Pop_OS laptop runs game just fine.

All these distros with their various design goals and bundled packages are variations on a theme. Like different Lego sets that include parts from a common box. But when you use the “btrfs” block you use the same one everyone else does.

And none of them will deal gracefully with a failing disk that the OS has been told not to ignore errors on.

Agree - critical infrastructure should have as few dependencies as possible.

I agree that immutable distro proponents are obnoxious.

Immutable distros wouldn’t have helped in this case.

I hate when people here complain of “bloat” since often it just means “there’s this one thing I don’t use and it irrationally offends me by its existence”.

You can uninstall just about anything you don’t want. So very much not like Windows in that regard.

Are you running out of space? Out of memory? Or simply offended that some functionality you don’t like exists?

When you boot a recovery image does it have any dmesg logs though? You should see something there when you try to mount it

Does “fdisk -l” show all your partitions on that drive?

All distros are. 🙄

So - I setup that model according to the docs and gave it this prompt:

Write me a highly optimized n-queens solver in go. It should take advantage of parallelism (what little there is) and output only the solution and how long it took.

After 10 minutes it gave me code that didn’t compile.

It took another 3 mins to fix the compile error and the output is not correct.

As I said - LLMs on 8Gig VRAM just aren’t worth it.

It just doesn’t seem logical to me to lock me out of the whole system because a non-essential part is not working/present.

It’s a fair criticism - but the system doesn’t know they are non-critical. You’ve, effectively, told it they are critical in fact.

You can add a nofail option to the drives that aren’t needed to boot in /etc/fstab.

e.g.

UUID=9d1f7f1b-2a78-4b92-a8d5-0b05e7273920 /mnt/backup  btrfs   defaults,nofail,subvol=@backups 0 0

I use this for a disk that’s external and sometimes not connected.

just want it to work,

Unless you’re doing software development and using lots of tools that need dbus or ever plan to do anything other than “use a browser and flatpaks”. Then you get to figure out how to fight with distrobox to make things interoperate with your desktop environment and other distroboxes.

And I doubt bazzite would have dealt as well with a missing disk.

If you look in the system settings under Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor there are some things you can tweak in terms of latency if it’s enabled. I personally have “Enabled on startup” unchecked and my VM is pretty snappy - but my theme may be simpler as well. Try changing things there to see if you notice a change either way.

Have you done any tuning of KDE? I run it in a virtual machine with no hardware video acceleration and it feels fine. Turning off the compositor and animations might make a big difference.

It’s called “traceroute” on Linux and Mac because there was never a 8.3 filename limitation on them.

Yeah - I’ve been playing around more with the Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct MoE model and it’s still quite… Meh. I’ve been using llama.cpp and I’ve tried a bunch of tuning. It works and performs well enough (15t/s) but the output is just garbage. I can do some simple coding but I’m finding I’m fighting with it more than if I just wrote the code myself. Maybe I just have standards that are too high. Claude Opus 3.7 is just in an entirely different league…

When you’re managing your own patches you need to upgrade very cautiously - if at all. And always keep a few older working kernels around.

For something like this I’d probably just pin the kenel at a specific version or compile the Kernel myself separately.

Does… It matter?

Energy use is energy use no?

The energy required to do inference (i.e. amount it questions and the like) is no worse than doing some gaming for a short period of time.

That said it’s probably less efficient to run locally since anthropic and openai have been getting more efficient data center hardware from nvidia compared to consumer desktop gpus.

I’ll check that out - speed isn’t my biggest issue so much as coding performance… The qwen 3.5 model I was using can write code, but it’s… Meh? Like sometimes it doesn’t even compile.

I did try tweaking llama.cpp to do some cpu offloading and it does seem to allow for much larger contexts at a modest performance loss. I’ll check out larger models.

64G. But CPU inference is painfully slow.

Yeah, it’s “good for its size” but it’s just too flaky for me to use for any significant coding.

I’ve tried a few times but with only 8gig of vram it’s simply not worth it.