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Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by mark_l_watson »

whitehexagon wrote: post #221
mchiang wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This caught me out yesterday. I was trying to move models onto external disk, and it seems to require re-installation? but there was no sign of the simple CLI option that was previously presented and I gave up. As a developer feature request, it would be great if ollama could support more than one location at once, so that it is possible to keep a couple models 'live' but have the option to plug in an external disk w…

I just symbolically link the default model directory to a fast and cheap external drive. I agree that it would be nice to support multiple model directories.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by hostyle »

weberer wrote: post #244
flux293m wrote: post #218

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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

This link is for the existing cli version, not the new gui app.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by mbreese »

tux1968 wrote: post #152
jart wrote: post #136

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This. This. A thousand times this. I hate Windows / MacOS but love their desktops. I love Linux / BSD but hate their desktops. So my most expensive most powerful workstation is always a headless Linux machine that I ssh into from a Windows or MacOS toy computer. Unfortunately most developers do not understand this. Every time I run a command in the terminal and it tries to open a browser tab without printing the URL,…

You can replace the xdg-open command (or whichever command is used on your linux system) with your own. Just program it to fire over the url to a waiting socket on your windows box, and have it automatically open there. The details are pretty easy to work out, and the result will be seamless.

I usually do this with a port forward (ip or Unix socket) over SSH. This way my server just sends data to ~/.tunnel/socket, and my SSH connection handles getting it to my client.

(It’s a bit more complicated with starting a listening server in my laptop, making sure the port forwarded file doesn’t exist, etc, but this is the basic idea.)

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by jacooper »

I don't think this is necessary on desktop, you can just use a browser.

For me what is needed is an assistant native app for Android, something like perplexitys assistant mode that replaces gemini.

It would make using your own LLM with your phone, since you can then interact with apps.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by badsectoracula »

kergonath wrote: post #161
jart wrote: post #133

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Most people aren't hackers. Thanks to LLMs and vibe coding, even they can now take a can-do attitude to life that feels empowering. There's no longer any excuse to languish in helpless misery and negativity. You can just build things.

I have other things to do with my day than vibe-coding yet another stupid chat app with fewer features than one I can just download and get running in minutes. It’s not helplessness or misery, it’s just the finite number of hours I have in a day and the fact that other things are more interesting than that. I don’t grow my own wheat or maintain my own OS, either.

Yeah, ok, don't do it then. That doesn't mean because you do not want to bother, the suggestion is invalid for everyone here. There are a lot of people who just love to do their own thing, tinker with whatever they have on hand and then use the stuff they have created themselves.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I have been happy using Ollama via the command line and via API, but I am sold on their new UI for coding. I was just using the newly updated qwen3:30b model for coding, and I like the button in the too right corner of generated code listings - a simple thing but useful.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc »

flux293m wrote: post #218
mchiang wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've never used a single linux GUI app in my 15 years of developing software. No company I've worked for even gives out linux laptops.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by smcleod »

ai_viewz wrote: post #226

I have been experimenting many LLMs in Ollama, but the opensource models are still behind paid versions like Cohere. Any model which gives onpar performance and quality of result compared to Cohere , please let me know

Aren't cohere's models pretty dated now? They don't even show up on leaderboards (synthetic or real) these days. What about GLM 4.5, Qwen 3 235b 2507 or even just Qwen 3 32b 2507 etc...

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by hazmazlaz »

mchiang wrote: post #215
ozim wrote: post #212

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I just updated and a bit annoying by default gemma3:4b was selected that I don't have on my local. I guess would be nicer to default to one of the models that are present. It was nice it started downloading it but also there was no indication I don't have that model before hand until I opened drop-down to see download buttons. But of course nice job guys.

Thanks for the kind words. Sorry about that, we are working out some of the initial experience for Ollama.

The need to start a chat for a model that is not currently downloaded in order to initiate a download confused me for a minute the first time I tried it out. A more intuitive approach (which is the first thing I tried to do before I figured it out) might be to make the download icons in the model list clickable, to initiate a download. Then you could display a download progress bar in the list, and when models have been downloaded show a little "info" icon that is also clickable to display the model card, surface other model specific options, and enable deletion. Love the new UI, kudos!
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