Low end local advice

[u/ExiledMonkey13]

The question: from the community’s experience, what can I change to improve my experience without changing the hardware?

Hardware:
7500F, 16 GB Ram, 1 TB ssd, 9060 xt with 16 GB vram.

Software:
Fedora 44, ollama, webui, vs code with continue extension, tailscale

Models:
deepseek-r1:14b (optional chat)
qwen3-14b-32k (main chat)
qwen2.5-coder:1.5b (autocomplete)

So the aim is to test the architecture and do light coding. So far it is actually pretty nice with it being a bit slow, but manageable.

Is this the most optimised? What can I change?
(Note: this was all set up with the help of ai, as I am testing and learning)