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Running Flux locally on a Mac: install, commands and two models compared
Community description: Building the engine, downloading 17 GB of weights, every flag explained, and two Flux models measured on one machine: one paints from scratch, the other edits a finished frame.
Dev.to | Sep 20, 2026 | Kirill Lukyanov
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A step costs exactly 26. 3 seconds, linearly. Eight steps don't give you "the same, but better. " They give you a different frame: different angle, different light, different street outside the window. I ran both on the same picture with the same prompt and seed.
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