#linux

• Generating AI images on a 6GB laptop GPU, or: VRAM is a lie

  1 July 2026

  Everyone said SDXL needs a monster GPU. My laptop has 6GB and something to prove. OOM errors, offloading tricks, and one genuinely magical afternoon.

• I left Windows for Arch Linux with no plan and one USB stick

  12 June 2026

  Twenty years a Windows user, then one evening of hubris: installing an Arch-based distro as my only OS, with no fallback and no idea what a bootloader was.