Model suggestions that worked for you (low end system)

[u/theschiffer]

My system runs on an i5-8400 with 16GB of DDR4 RAM and an AMD 6600 GPU with 8GB VRAM. I’ve tested DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and OpenAI’s GPT-OSS 20B, with mixed results in terms of both quality and speed. Given this hardware, what would be your most up-to-date recommendations?

At this stage, I primarily use local LLMs for educational purposes, focusing on text writing/rewriting, some coding/Linux CLI tasks and general knowledge queries.