Comment by bdavbdav
6 months ago
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
Why do you care? They're the ones who will deal with the support burden of people who don't understand how to use it—if that support burden is low enough that they're happy with where they're at, what motivation do you have to tell them to deliberately restrict their audience?
> Why do you care?
Like many in FOSS I care about making the experience better for everyone. Slightly weird question, why do you care that I care?
> what motivation do you have to tell them to deliberately restrict their audience?
I don't have any motivation to say any such thing, and I wouldn't either. Is that really your take away from reading that issue?
Stating something like "Ollama is a daemon/cli for running LLMs in your terminal" on your website isn't a restriction whatsoever, it's just being clear up front what the tool is. Currently, the website literally doesn't say what Ollama actually is.
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