u/Flinpleis

I've recently started experimenting with using AI to actually make stuff instead of using it like google search, i manage a repair shop and i figured i could use AI to automate many parts of the business and also create helpful tools for my technicians.

I don't know anything about programming/coding, but want to learn useful concepts, tips and workflows in order to manage my agents better.

Right now the only subscription i have is Opencode Go, and I'm using the desktop app for Linux with the GUI (an unpopular opinion i guess because most people use the CLI)

My questions for any of you that want to help are the following:

1. While I'm fine with the Opencode GUI, i want to know if there is a better option that is more user friendly for me as someone who is new to this, that is available for Linux (Fedora) and that doesn't trade off being user friendly for a lack of advanced features.

2. I'm pretty much using defaults for everything, so i want to know about some useful plugins/extensions that actually make a difference in daily use and user experience.

3. I've seen that most people agree that the best workflow to manage the Go limits efficiently is using a big model like GLM 5.2 for planning, and small models like DSV4-Flash or Mimo V2.5 for execution, I've been applying that and so far it's working pretty good, but i want to know if any of you use the other models and what are they best at, also if you combine Go with another Subscription or provider, which one seems to be the best low-cost combo? Right now I've been using Go + 10$ from Neuralwatt to get cheaper prices for GLM 5.2 so I don't hit my limits on Go, I'm considering the 20$ sub from Neuralwatt but if there's anything better I'm open to it.

4. I'm struggling to think about what exactly do i want to build with these tools, since i don't know how far they can get, given that I'm not someone with enough knowledge to guide them in order to make the most of them, so i want to know if any of you started like me, what did you start of with that you could tell it was making your life, business or daily life easier? Right now it feels like i have a lot of power in my hands but can't figure out how to use it because I'm overwhelmed by the amount of possibilities i have and don't know where to start because i also don't know how far i can go.

Sorry for the wall of text, i would gladly appreciate it if any of you actually takes the time to help me with this journey.

Im on a Lenovo LOQ with a RTX 5060 laptop and an i7 13650HX, since the last Nvidia driver update (595.71.05) i haven't been able to play anything, it refuses to use the NVIDIA GPU and instead uses the iGPU. Games freeze at launch, do not launch, or run at miserable framerates, this never happened before.

Now, this wouldn't be such an issue if you could go back and downgrade the drivers, but you can't, at least not at the time I'm posting this. If you try to install any of the experimental or beta drivers (which ironically are outdated in comparison to the recommended "safe" option), it will fail because the repositories seem to be down and show a 404 error, so now I'm stuck with drivers that make my GPU useless and I can't do anything about it.

I'm not distrohoping because of this or anything like that, so far Nobara has been flawless to me until now but i just wanted to vent a little and maybe ask if anyone is having similar issues.

EDIT: I disabled the iGPU on my BIOS settings but that didn't work, so i also tried using an older kernel through the grub menu, in my case it is 7.0.1 and now i can play fine. This is a temporary solution until the NVIDIA drivers get fixed, but i guess it's fine for now.