From Josie · Josephine Pfeiffer · · 1m 30s
Putting Linux on My RTX Spark Laptop
My Arch Linux setup on the ASUS ProArt P16 beats Windows in 7-Zip tests and reports 116.0 GiB memory for CUDA.
In brief
My Arch Linux setup on the ASUS ProArt P16 beats Windows in 7-Zip tests and reports 116.0 GiB memory for CUDA. Josie's Arch Linux on ASUS ProArt P16 runs 7-Zip 20-thread compression 5% faster than Windows and reports 116.0 GiB memory pool for CUDA. Originally reported by Josie.
Why I switched to Linux
I wanted to run open-weight models locally on my high-end laptop without Microsoft's privacy issues.
My laptop specs
ASUS ProArt P16 H7607BA-SE033W with 128 gb ram, 6144 cuda cores, and a 2 tb ssd.
Why Windows is problematic
Microsoft's setup requires privacy concessions and takes years to fix basic features like the taskbar.
My Linux setup
I used Arch Linux ARM with patches for NVIDIA and ASUS hardware to create a bootable system.
7-Zip performance
My Linux setup compresses 20 threads 5% faster than Windows and decompresses 3% faster.
Memory pool comparison
Linux reports 116.0 gi b as both system ram and cuda memory, while Windows divides ram into dedicated and shared regions.
Running Qwen locally
I ran NVIDIA's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local checkpoint through vLLM with mixed quantization.
Model performance
Qwen processed 150 requests in ten minutes with all answers passing checks and median response times under 6 seconds.
Why this matters
This setup allows running complex AI models locally on high-end laptops without microsoft dependencies.
Here's the gist
Josie's Arch Linux on ASUS ProArt P16 runs 7-Zip 20-thread compression 5% faster than Windows and reports 116.0 GiB memory pool for CUDA.
