Ollama's new app

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Post by BUFU » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

Ollama's new app
ollama.com

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by rihegher » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

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

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by 8thcross » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

a little too late i think.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by IceWreck » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

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?

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by thimabi » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

8thcross wrote: post #3

a little too late i think.

It came very late indeed! By now, I’m already used to LM Studio as a UI for local LLMs… it even seems to have more features than ollama.

But I liked to know that ollama developed a GUI as well — more options is always better, and maybe it will improve in the future.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:28 PM UTC

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?

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Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by swyx » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:31 PM UTC

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

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by amelius » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC

rihegher wrote: post #2

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

Shouldn't the LLM be able to code the linux version?

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by noman-land » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC

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

I, too, dream of this.

Re: Ollama's new app

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Post by johncolanduoni » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 10:34 PM UTC

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.