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[–] pirat@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Neat!

I've been running Garuda on my main rig for a minute. I thought all would be good but some of my music production stuff has been a bit slow to catch up as far as updates in the AUR vs the official .deb releases (and I haven't tinkered enough to just make that work myself).

Being able to install .deb otb seems nice; I was planning on running a new framework 12 laptop on it (which I dream of getting for a new performance rig for my music) but I may install it on my current performance rig to see how it runs.

How well does it play with nvidia? If it's all good and I eventually switch on my main rig I'd love to be able to run a local GPU supported AI. I know that for nvidia I have to have drivers that support cuda stuff.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Nvidia open source drivers are working pretty good, I have no complaints. Local AI stuff can be a little annoying to setup as a beginner I bet, but if you run it through llama.cpp its smooth sailing. I recommend something like StabilityMatrix (app image) if you have no clue whats going on

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

You might want to check out distrobox. Nice way to access apps for other distros or package managers like they're native.

I'm also on Garuda for my main box (Bazzite on the framework 13), and I have an Ubuntu distrobox for dev work with one dev project, another for general tools that are only released as .debs, one running fedora for things that "only support RHEL", etc.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I'm using it with a 5070 ti and everything is smooth. I have been using ComfyUI to restore old photos so the AI aspect works well too