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Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by zettabomb »

johncolanduoni wrote: post #10
IceWreck wrote: post #4

Why not Linux? The UI looks to be some kind chrome based thingy - probably electron - should be easy to port to Linux. Also is there a link to the source?

For all of Electron's promise in being cross-platform, "I'll just press this button and ship this Electron app on Linux and everything will be fine" is not the current state of things. A lot of it is papercuts like glibc version aggravation, but GPU support is persistently problematic.

The Element app on Linux is currently broken (if you want to use encryption, so basically for everyone) due to an issue with Electron. Luckily it still works in a regular browser. I'm really baffled by how that can happen.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by [deleted] »

swyx wrote: post #7

finally, what took so long lmao if im being honest i care more about multiple local ai apps on my desktop all hooking into the same ollama instance rather than all downloading their own models as part of the app so i have like multiple 10s of gbs of repeated weights all over the place because apps dont talk to each other what does it take for THAT to finally happen

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Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by ceroxylon »

IceWreck wrote: post #4

Why not Linux? The UI looks to be some kind chrome based thingy - probably electron - should be easy to port to Linux. Also is there a link to the source?

I am guessing that the Linux version was first (or the announcement was worded strangely), as it is available on their download page:

https://ollama.com/download

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by mchiang »

pkaye wrote: post #13
rihegher wrote: post #2

"Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows" linux sounds out for now

Click the download button and you will see Linux as an option.

Linux does not have the interface right now, and there are a lot of options for users. Open WebUI is an awesome project.

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

Re: Ollama's new app

#17

Post by mchiang »

swyx wrote: post #7

finally, what took so long lmao if im being honest i care more about multiple local ai apps on my desktop all hooking into the same ollama instance rather than all downloading their own models as part of the app so i have like multiple 10s of gbs of repeated weights all over the place because apps dont talk to each other what does it take for THAT to finally happen

this is something we are working on. I don't have a specific timeline since it's done when its done, but it is being worked on.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by nicce »

IceWreck wrote: post #4

Why not Linux? The UI looks to be some kind chrome based thingy - probably electron - should be easy to port to Linux. Also is there a link to the source?

Electron… wonder how this can be marketed as native then.
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