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Re: Ollama's new app

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I can recommend to spend a day finding and configuring a window manager that suits your needs.

I doubt that she spent the time to create a cross platform C compiler library but didn't bother trying out a few Linux desktops.

I doubt that there is no wm that suits their needs.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Looks like a big pivot on target audience from developers to regular users, at least on the homepage https://ollama.com/ as a product. Before, it was all about the CLI versions of Ollama for devs, now it's not even mentioned. At the bottom of the blog post it says: > For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releases page. Nothing against that, just an observation. Previou…

This makes me really wonder about the relationship between Open WebUI & Ollama

Re: Ollama's new app

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post #67

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No one should use ollama. A cursory search of r/localllama gives plenty of occassions where they've proven themselves bad actors. Here's a 'fun' overview https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1kg20mu/so_why_... There are multiple (far better) options - eg LM studio if you want GUI, llama.cpp if you want the CLI that ollama ripped off. IMO the only reason ollama is even in the conversation is it was easy to get…

This is just wrong. Ollama has moved off of llama.cpp and is working with hardware partners to support GGML. https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models

is it?

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/llm/server.go#L79

Re: Ollama's new app

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one of the maintainers for Ollama. I don't see it as a pivot. We are all developers ourselves, and we use it. In fact, there are many self-made prototypes before this from different individuals. We were hooked, so we built it for ourselves. Ollama is made for developers, and our focus in continually improving Ollama's capabilities.

Congratulations on launching the front-end, but I don't see how it can be made for developers and not have a Linux version.

Its very strange, but they do have a Linux client that they refuse to mention in their blog post. I have no idea if this is a simple slip-up or if it was for some reason intentional.

https://ollama.com/download/linux

Re: Ollama's new app

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Have you seen https://pygpt.net/ ? Overloaded interface and little unfortunate name aside, this seems to be the best one I tried.

> little unfortunate name aside What's wrong with the name? Are you referring to the GPT trademark? That was rejected.

I may be too picky, and on reflection I probably shouldn't be - it was just my first thought when I saw what the project actually is for the first time.

What I meant is the "Py" prefix is typically used for Python APIs/libraries, or Python bindings to libraries in other languages. Sometimes as a prefix for dev tool names like PyInstaller or PyEnv. It's just less often used for standalone apps, only to indicate the project was developed in Python.

Re: Ollama's new app

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post #54

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one of the maintainers for Ollama. I don't see it as a pivot. We are all developers ourselves, and we use it. In fact, there are many self-made prototypes before this from different individuals. We were hooked, so we built it for ourselves. Ollama is made for developers, and our focus in continually improving Ollama's capabilities.

do you know why ollama hasn't updated its models in over a month while many fantastic models have been released in that time, most recently GLM 4.5? It's forcing me to use LM Studio which I for whatever reason absolutely do not prefer. thank you guys for all your work on it, regardless

just so you know, you can grab any gguf from huggingface and specify the quant like this:

  ollama pull hf.co/bartowski/nvidia_OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-7B-GGUF:IQ4_XS

Re: Ollama's new app

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post #54

Looks like a big pivot on target audience from developers to regular users, at least on the homepage https://ollama.com/ as a product. Before, it was all about the CLI versions of Ollama for devs, now it's not even mentioned. At the bottom of the blog post it says: > For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releases page. Nothing against that, just an observation. Previou…

one of the maintainers for Ollama. I don't see it as a pivot. We are all developers ourselves, and we use it. In fact, there are many self-made prototypes before this from different individuals. We were hooked, so we built it for ourselves. Ollama is made for developers, and our focus in continually improving Ollama's capabilities.

How about include MCP option?

Re: Ollama's new app

#248

Looks like a big pivot on target audience from developers to regular users, at least on the homepage https://ollama.com/ as a product. Before, it was all about the CLI versions of Ollama for devs, now it's not even mentioned. At the bottom of the blog post it says: > For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releases page. Nothing against that, just an observation. Previou…

I think having a bash script as the linux installation is more of a stop-gap measure than truly supporting Linux. And ollama is FOSS compared to LM Studio and Msty (as someone who switched from ollama to LM Studio; I'm very happy to see the frontend development of ollama and an easier method of increasing the context length of a model).

Re: Ollama's new app

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post #91

I gave the Ollama UI a try on Windows after using the CLI service for a while. - I like the simplicity. This would be perfect for setting up a non-technical friend or family member with a local LLM with just a couple clicks - Multimodal and Markdown support works as expected - The model dropdown shows both your local models and other popular models available in the registry I could see using this over Open WebUI for…

If you like simple, try out Jan as well. https://github.com/menloresearch/jan

Re: Ollama's new app

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post #142

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Seems that Google intend it to be that way - https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/capabilities/function-calli... . I suppose they are saying that the model is good enough that if you put the tool call format in prompt it should be able to handle any formats. I use PetrosStav/gemma3-tools and it seems that it only works half of the time - the rest the model call the tool but it doesn't get properly parsed by Ollama.

unfortunately, I don't think gemma 3 supports tool calling well. It's not trained into the model, and the 'support' for tool calling is post model training. We are working with Google, and trying to give the feedback on improving tool calling capabilities for future Gemma models. Fingers crossed!

All instruct templates are added in "post model training", and Gemma 3 works fine calling custom MCP tools using Jan and KoboldCpp.
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