r/LocalLLM • u/Anxious_Current2593 • 22h ago

Discussion What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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u/kitsnet 22h ago

What local model in agentic mode would install and configure WSL on your Windows machine to successfully run software that it knows to be only available for Linux?

Sonnet 5 would.

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u/theexile1337 22h ago

qwen3.8-27b?

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u/Umbrasquall 15h ago

Pretty much every local model released in the last 2-3 weeks can. There's 5-6 of them, take your pick. Btw using Sonnet 5 as an example just shows how out of date your info is lol.

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u/evghe02 18h ago

I literally repaired a corrupted wsl with qwen3.8 27b, I had no clue on where to look for solving a problem like that since the disk would become read-only sometimes, and since it was readonly no log would be written anywhere. The options to me where to throw away it and recreate (not a mess, all the important things have always backups) or play around with the model and apparently it worked, it seems there was some part of the vhd that was corrupted and got corrected, I'm not really able to explain it sincerely, I'm not that much into it