u/bmanojk

Good People.

I purchased a new Asus Flow Z13 KJP Edition Strix Halo laptop (cum tablet). It’s got 128 GM unified memory RAM machine, and I specifically bought it for running local LLMs. I have been into Apple ecosystem and have been a Mac OS user since 18 years. However, as the Mac Studio prices are beyond my affordability, have gone ahead with this. I have been into software web development for quite sometime and I am comfortable with trying out new things.

I would like to get some guidance around the setting up this machine for development, specifically Web, Mobile Apps and running Local LLM. I have bought a Windows 11 Pro license and upgraded to it, however I would like to also dual boot it to Ubuntu or a specific flavour of Linux that is optimised for performance and general broad support for drivers and development packages easy availability. The idea is not to spend a lot of time tinkering or learning the Linux side of things but to optimise the machine for local LLM running.

Coming from Mac OS to Windows and Linux, I also want to get your inputs if there are any particular things that would help me along this journey that I am starting.

Please do share your inputs and thoughts on the comments, not just specific to what I am looking for but anything and everything that will be of help to me, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you.