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by jonplackett 819 days ago
Is it easy to set this up?
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Super easy. You can just head down to https://lmstudio.ai and pick up an app that lets you play around. It's not particularly advanced, but it works pretty well.

It's mostly optimized for M-series silicon, but it also technically works on Windows, and isn't too difficult to trick into working on Linux either.

Also, https://jan.ai is open source and worth trying out too.
Looks super cool, though it seems to be missing a good chunk of features, like the ability to change the prompt format. (Just installed it myself to check out all the options.) All the other missing stuff I can see though is stuff that LM Studio doesn't have either (such as a notebook mode). If it has a good chat mode then that's good enough for most!
It is, it doesn't require any setup.

After installation:

> ollama run mistral:latest