The Callisto Protocol tested on the BOSGAME VTA-439 under CachyOS, with Radeon 890M benchmarks and comparisons with Windows 11.
Read more
Category: Reviews
Defuse – remove image backgrounds locally
My Defuse review explores this Linux background removal app on CachyOS, covering installation, local processing and ease of use.
Read more
BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC Running Linux: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on the BOSGAME VTA-439 under CachyOS, testing Radeon 890M performance at 1080p across five quality presets.
Read more
Machine Learning in Linux: Local AI Studio – local AI toolkit
Local AI Studio combines local LLM chat, Stable Diffusion, Whisper transcription and Kokoro text-to-speech in one Linux interface.
Read more
BOSGAME VTA-439: Gaming on Linux – Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Let’s see how the Radeon 890M integrated graphics performs.
Read more
Stencil – powerful batch file renamer with live previews
Stencil is a modern Linux batch file renamer with stackable operations, live previews, presets, metadata-based renaming and undo support.
Read more
AetherTune – Terminal Internet Radio Player Review
A review of AetherTune, an open source terminal radio player with station search, favourites, audio visualisation, and themes.
Read more
BOSGAME VTA-439: Run VirtualBox on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s Zen 5 Cores
Run VirtualBox on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s Zen 5 cores with taskset and a KDE desktop entry, avoiding slower Zen 5c cores.
Read more
SquirrelDisk – fast and attractive disk usage analyzer
SquirrelDisk is a fast open source disk usage analyzer with sunburst and treemap views, cleanup tools, SSH scanning, cloud storage and themes.
Read more
podcast-dl – Download and Archive Podcasts from the Command Line
podcast-dl is a flexible command-line tool for downloading, filtering, archiving and organising podcast episodes from RSS feeds.
Read more
Minisforum Says Disable Four of the MS-R1’s 12 CPU Cores – Is Linux Scheduling Them Properly?
Minisforum says disable four MS-R1 CPU cores. I test whether Linux schedules its heterogeneous 12-core ARM processor properly.
Read more
Beelink EQi 304: Can Linux Make Proper Use of Its One Fast CPU Core?
The Intel Core 3 304 has just one fast P-core alongside four LP E-cores. I test whether Linux gives that scarce resource to the right workloads.
Read more
Kokoro – Open-Weight Text-to-Speech Model
Kokoro is a lightweight open-weight text-to-speech model offering local speech synthesis, multiple languages, voices, and speed control.
Read more
PCM Transport – lightweight audio player
PCM Transport is a lightweight audio player with direct ALSA output, gapless playback, DSP tools, CUE support and very low memory use.
Read more
Chaski – modern RSS and Atom feed reader
Chaski is an RSS and Atom feed reader with offline reading, search, filters and feed synchronization support.
Read more
Meloville – local music player
Meloville is a desktop music player designed for listening to and managing a local music collection.
Read more
BOSGAME VTA-439 – Running LLMs on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 NPU
I test FastFlowLM on the BOSGAME VTA-439, running local LLMs on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s 55 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU.
Read more
MINISFORUM M2 – Does Linux Schedule Panther Lake Correctly?
See how Linux schedules the MINISFORUM M2’s Panther Lake P-, E- and LP E-cores across single-threaded, bursty, FFmpeg and full-load tests.
Read more
NPBackup – secure and efficient file backup solution
NPBackup adds a GUI, scheduling, monitoring and multi-repository management to restic’s encrypted, deduplicated backup engine.
Read more
Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC – NPU and Llama
I test the Beelink EQi Core 3 304’s 15-TOPS Intel NPU with OpenVINO and Llama 3.2 1B to see how useful modest NPUs really are.
Read more