Comment by evilduck
6 months ago
> llama.cpp, kobold.cpp, oobabooga
None of these three are remotely as easy to install or use. They could be, but none of them are even trying.
> lmstudio
This is a closed source app with a non-free license from a business not making money. Enshittification is just a matter of when.
I would argue that kobold.cpp is even easier to use than Ollama. You click on the link in the README to download an .exe and doubleclick it and select your model file. No command line involved.
Which part of the user experience did you have problems with when using it?
You’re coming at it from a point of knowledge. Read the first sentence of the Ollama website against the first paragraph of kobold’s GitHub. Newcomers don’t have a clue what “running a GGUF model..” means. It’s written by tech folk without an understanding of the audience.
Ollama is also written for technical/developer users, by accident (it seems), even though they don't want it to be strictly for technical users. I've opened a issue asking them to make it more clear that Ollama is for technical users, but they seem confident people with no terminal experience can and will also use Ollama: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/7116
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