Dude, Arch is a rolling release, it has no dist-upgrade equivalent. You’re not even in the right conversation.

Debian, Ubuntu, … and plenty of other distros have. Just upgrading my server from Ubuntu 22 to 24 (both LTS) took an hour or two of fixing things.

Until you do a dist-upgrade and random shit breaks (:

Decent sized for what?

Creative writing and roleplay? Plenty, but I try to fit it into my 16 GB VRAM as otherwise it’s too slow for my liking.

Coding/complex tasks? No, that would need 128GB and upwards and it would still be awfully slow. Except you use a Mac with unified memory.

For image and video generation you’d want to fit it into GPU VRAM again, system RAM would be way too slow.

Maybe it has changed again, but in the past I gave it a try. When 16 GB was a lot. Then when 32 GB was a lot. I always thought “Not filling up the RAM anyway, might as well disable it!”

Yeah, no, Windows is not a fan. Like you get random “running out of memory” errors, even though with 16 GB I still had 3-4 GB free RAM available.

Some apps require the page file, same as crash dumps. So I just set it to a fixed value (like 32 GB min + max) on my 64 GB machine.

Don’t fully disable swap on Windows, it can break things :-/

With 32 and 64 GB systems I’ve never run out of RAM, so the RAM isn’t the issue at all.

Optimization just sucks.

Austria had a day time lights law when I learned to drive, it just made sense. Then they abolished that law again :(

Which means you do get idiots driving in fog or at dusk with their lights off.

Hell, the automatic lights aren’t perfect either on my new car, in bright fog I still have to make sure I turn the lights on manually as otherwise the back lights are turned off (front is okay with the LEDs). Stupid design.

Sent this to my PO, he replied that’s exactly how we’re working 🙃