# System Overview — dankware

**dankware** is an Alienware m16 R2 laptop. It runs CachyOS Linux with the Niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor and Noctalia Shell. It serves as the primary workstation for the Frank Program, running the pi coding agent locally and connecting to remote llama.cpp servers.

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## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| **Hostname** | `dankware` |
| **System** | Alienware m16 R2 |
| **OS** | CachyOS (Arch-based rolling) |
| **Kernel** | `linux-cachyos 7.2.0-1` (EEVDF + LTO + AutoFDO + Propeller) |
| **LTS Kernel** | `linux-cachyos-lts 6.18.42-1` |
| **Desktop** | Niri 26.04 (Wayland) |
| **Shell** | Noctalia Shell 4.7.7 |
| **Terminal** | Ghostty 1.3.1 |
| **Shell (CLI)** | zsh (fish also installed) |
| **Display Manager** | SDDM |
| **Bootloader** | GRUB |
| **Init** | systemd (graphical.target) |

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## Hardware Summary

| Component | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| **CPU** | Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake, 22 threads) |
| **iGPU** | Intel Arc Graphics (Meteor Lake-P) |
| **dGPU** | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop (AD106M, Max-Q) |
| **NVIDIA Driver** | 610.57.04 |
| **RAM** | 62 GiB |
| **Swap** | 62 GiB (zram0) |
| **Boot Disk** | Samsung 990 EVO (1.8 TB), /boot + LUKS-encrypted / |
| **Secondary Disk** | KIOXIA BG6 (953.9 GB) |
| **Root** | LUKS encrypted, ~1.2 TB available |

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## Software Stack

### Compositor and Shell

- **Niri 26.04** — Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
- **Noctalia Shell 4.7.7** — Desktop shell built with Quickshell (qs 0.0.12)
- **Shelly Notifications** — Notification tray service

### Applications

- **Ghostty 1.3.1** — Terminal emulator
- **Firefox 153.0** — Primary browser
- **Chromium 150.0** — Secondary browser
- **Nautilus 50.2.2** — File manager
- **Neovim 0.12.4** — Text editor
- **Steam 1.0.0.86** — Gaming platform

### Audio

- **PipeWire 1.6.8** — Multimedia router
- **WirePlumber 0.5.15** — Session manager
- **pavucontrol** — Volume control GUI

### Screenshots and Recording

- **grim** — Wayland screenshot utility
- **slurp** — Screen region selector
- **swappy** —Screenshot annotator
- **wl-clipboard 2.3.0** — Wayland clipboard
- **hyprpicker** — Color picker
- **wf-recorder** — Screen recording

### Display Management

- **wlr-randr** — Display configuration utility

See [[hardware|hardware]] for full hardware details.
See [[displays|displays]] for the three-monitor layout.
See [[cachyos|cachyos]] for operating system details.

  * [Display Configuration](displays.md) — Three-monitor display setup on dankware — dual Samsung Odyssey G75F (portrait) and internal BOE panel.

  * [Hardware Specifications](hardware.md) — Complete hardware specifications for dankware — Alienware m16 R2.

  * [Network Interfaces](network.md) — Network configuration for dankware — Wi-Fi, USB Ethernet, and local network topology.