Concur with Gemma2 being underwhelming, I dismissed it pretty quickly but gemma3:27b is looking pretty good atm. BTW mistral-small:24b is also worth mentioning

Concur with Gemma2 being underwhelming, I dismissed it pretty quickly but gemma3:27b is looking pretty good atm. BTW mistral-small:24b is also worth mentioning (IMO best local model) and phi4:14b is also pretty strong for its size. mistral-small was my previous local goto model, testing now to see if gemma3 can replace it.