Skip to content
AI News HubLIVE
More
Summary only

My offline AI-assisted Linux development machine

The author shares their 2025 Linux dev machine setup, moving from Fedora/KDE to vanilla Arch Linux with the niri scrolling tiling compositor, and achieving fully offline AI-assisted coding. The machine uses an ASUS ROG Flow Z13 with 128GB unified memory, running local models like Qwen3.6 27B and Gemma 4 31B via OpenCode and llama.cpp. The article details the hardware, OS, desktop environment, dev tools, and the local AI workflow.

SourceHacker News AIAuthor: deepu105
My offline AI-assisted Linux development machine
Report an error

The correction channel is not available yet. You can copy the article reference below for later.

Correction instructions

Summary only

Under the source content permission, this page provides an editorial summary, key points, and a link to the original article.

Key points and analysis

Article intelligence

EngineersAdvanced

Key points

  • Uses an ASUS ROG Flow Z13 2025 with 128GB unified memory, enabling local LLM workloads.
  • Runs vanilla Arch Linux with niri, a scrolling tiling Wayland compositor, and DMS desktop shell.
  • Achieves fully offline AI coding with OpenCode, llama.cpp, and local models (Qwen3.6 27B, Gemma 4 31B).
  • Local models achieve over 64 tokens/s with 256k context on the Radeon 8060S GPU.

Highlights and analysis are generated automatically and may contain errors. Check the original source.

More recent stories on this topic · Models