Hardware · Updated 20 Oct, 02:38 am IST
User boots Arch Linux on RTX Spark ASUS ProArt laptop to avoid Windows

Why it matters for readers: Demonstrates you can avoid Windows on this hardware and still access the GPU memory from Linux and CUDA.
- The author installed Arch Linux (using Arch Linux ARM) on an ASUS ProArt P16 H7607BA-SE033W to avoid Windows setup requirements.1
- The laptop configuration described includes 128 GB RAM, 6,144 CUDA cores and a 2 TB SSD.1
- Linux reports the same approximately 116.0 GiB memory pool to the OS and to CUDA on this GPU.1
- The poster is an Arch package maintainer and shared initial bootable setup and patches.1
- They expressed interest in using the machine for local ML work like RL, quantisation, and fine-tuning.1
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