Qwen3 VS ShellNewHandler

• Hybrid Thinking Modes
  Qwen3 supports both 'thinking' (slow, deliberate reasoning) and 'non-thinking' (fast, direct response) modes within a single model, allowing users to toggle between deep chain-of-thought reasoning and quick responses depending on the task requirements.
• Wide Range of Model Sizes
  Qwen3 offers an extensive lineup of models ranging from 0.6B to 235B parameters (including MoE variants like 30B-A3B and 235B-A22B), giving users flexibility to choose models that fit their hardware constraints and performance needs.
• Strong Multilingual Support
  Qwen3 supports 119 languages and dialects across diverse language families, making it one of the most linguistically inclusive open-weight model families available, suitable for global applications.
• Competitive Benchmark Performance
  Qwen3 flagship models demonstrate strong performance on major benchmarks across coding, math, reasoning, and general knowledge tasks, competing favorably with leading models like GPT-4o, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
• Open Weights with Apache 2.0 License
  All Qwen3 models are released under the Apache 2.0 license, making them freely available for both commercial and research use without restrictive licensing constraints, fostering broad community adoption and customization.

Possible disadvantages

• High Resource Requirements for Large Models
  The larger Qwen3 models (especially the 235B parameter MoE variant) require substantial computational resources for inference and fine-tuning, including multiple high-end GPUs, making them impractical for many individual developers or small teams.
• MoE Architecture Complexity
  The Mixture-of-Experts models (30B-A3B and 235B-A22B) introduce architectural complexity that can make deployment, serving optimization, and debugging more challenging compared to standard dense transformer models.
• Thinking Mode Token Overhead
  When using the thinking mode, models generate extended chain-of-thought reasoning tokens that significantly increase latency and token consumption, which can raise costs and reduce responsiveness for real-time applications.
• Relatively New Ecosystem
  As a newer release, Qwen3 has a smaller ecosystem of community tools, fine-tuned variants, and third-party integrations compared to more established model families like Llama, which may slow adoption for some use cases.
• Potential Quality Variability Across Languages
  Despite supporting 119 languages, performance quality can vary significantly across languages, with lower-resource languages likely receiving less training data representation and thus producing less reliable outputs compared to high-resource languages like English and Chinese.

No features have been listed yet.

Tracking Qwen3 since May 2025.

• I recently got libreoffice, but now the new option in right click looks like a mess. Can someone help me get rid of them please?

  Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago

• This menu should be easy to add/remove programs to... Who is really creating Access Databases from this menu often enough to keep it here? (Not me!) Is there an easy way to edit this?

  I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago