Ok, thanks! Thaf sounds quite advanced, but I’ll have a read afterwards :)

I run it using LM Studio, which defaults to Q4 quantization, I think. I was able to put about 10 layers on the GPU with 64k token context. That put me at about 9.1 GB VRAM usage, leaving some room for Video playback xD

What version do you use and how do you run Qwen3.6? I’ve played around a bit with the Q4 version in LM studio +Zed, but I was not happy with the results. It looses track very often and often enters infinite loops or just stops…

I can run both the 27B and 35B version of Qwen3.6 on my 10GB VRAM 3080, and they run ok. You don’t need to put the entire model in VRAM, even if it’s probably beneficial.

Yes, the tax is paid by the consumers. But, those consumers will probably not be willing to pay more just because the company was too slow in updating their cash registers. So the problem quickly solves itself.

I don’t see the problem. Drop the tax and if the companies can’t handle it, they continue to pay it. And once it costs them money they will fix it in 1 week instead of a year.

Perhaps also an off-site backup ;-)

It’s either +44% (from $70) or -31% (from $101). Percentages are weird…

Yes, and it should probably be cheaper in Poland. But it’s really 17% more expensive in this case, not 44% (or 30% as the article calculates).

The G-Drive couldn’t have a backup system due to its large capacity

Peak competence there.

The Polish price includes 23% VAT, no?

15 years is too long, it doesn’t match the state of the industry or technological progress.

How is this too long? I would consider it a reasonable amount of time to receive security updates on a computer.

I have a notebook that I bought in 2012. It can run Ubuntu LTS 24.04, which is supported until 2034, without issue. There is no indication that the next release will stop supporting this hardware. I don’t see why Microsoft couldn’t provide this.

Yeah, I also find it very annoying. I guess Youtube just can’t imagine that people exist who speak more than one language…

Having the option of automatic translations is fine but at least let me (globallly) disable it!

I think, currently, creators can disable it, so you can ask them to do that.

Both KDE Discover and Gnome Software offer similar functionality. You should also be able to use them without their respective shells.

I wanted to write the same thing. E.g., you can run this in bash to set the permissions for all .conf files to 600:

find /mnt/the/directory -iname "*.conf" -exec chmod 600 {} \;

Makes sense. But for an Arc B580 you’d probably want 6.12 or newer (according to https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-gpu-compute). Unfortunately Linux Mint is not that great for running the very latest hardware (and especially GPUs).

Is there a particular reason that you want to update your kernel? Generally, the best idea as a new user is to stick with the default kernel that your distro provides What Stable Kernel Should I Use. Given your hardware, I’d expect that kernel 6.8 should work fine for you.

Linux Mint switched to the HWE kernel with version 22. Theferore, the kernel should be updated to 6.11 with the release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 (planned in a week).

Sorry to hear that Linux Mint is not working well for you. Unfortunately, things can sometimes still be rough when it comes to hardware support. I have personally also had issues with Nvidia GPUs and Bluetooth. Often this is because the manufacturers only provide drivers for Windows and Linux drivers need to be created by the community.

Regarding Nvidia and secure boot. I’ve had the same issue (on both Mint and other distros). After some frustrations (including a BIOS update) I finally gave up and disabled secure boot. Since then, I haven’t had any issues with my dual boot with Win 10 (but I probably won’t buy another Nvidia GPU). What makes you say that Windows requires Secure Boot?

No I didn’t. When I installed Linux mint the first time I was able to fix everything. I needed to reinstall it and that is where this controller issue started

This seems quite weird. Are you perhaps missing a package (e.g. steam-devices)?

Yes, I would recommend creating a backup (perhaps on your phone or a different computer over the network) and then upgrading to 21 and then 22. IMHO Mint has steadily gotten better and there is typically no reason to stay on an older version.