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For the moment, I haven’t had the motivation to switch everything over to Linux, but it is coming down the line. To that end, I do know how to set up models and windows, and it’s not all that hard, but what is the specific model name? Is it just the Quen 8b?

Come to think of it, I might actually be able to install the flat pack into the Windows subsystem for Linux if it behaves the way I think it’s supposed to.

Could be a very interesting experiment.

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well, if you’re coming from a Windows packground, a flatpak is roughly, to the user at least, similar to an exe.

You download a flatpak, install it, blingo blango it has its own environment that is essentially sandboxed, as it pulls in its own dependencies and such.

But, you’ll need to either go with a linux distro that comes with flatpak support pre-configured, or, set up flatpak support on a different distro.

Once you’ve got either of those, there are free app ‘stores’ for flatpak that make it extremely simple to browse, download, install a flatpak program.

Then you just click, download Alpaca, run it, and its got a menu, add new models, search through what it has access to, “Qwen 3”, 8b parameter variant, download, then use it.

I am personally using Bazzite at the moment, I used to use a bunch of Debian, variants of Debian (Ubuntu, PopOS), have futzed around with Arch and even Void… Bazzite is so far the happy medium I’ve found between stability, extensibility, and also being pretty close to cutting edge in terms of driver updates and kernel updates.

If you wanna try WSL (which is named backwards, but whatever), I… I have no idea what you’d have to do to get flatpaks working… on… Windows… but if you think you can, best of luck!

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