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by rrix2 433 days ago
it's unclear to me what you gain running ollama in wsl like this compared to switching to a productive native operating system [like nixos] or just installing the windows release of ollama and quietly forgetting about it.

i use nixos.wsl at work to have the same emacs configuration as on my laptop, and that's fine except the windows filesystem performance makes me want to throw the whole system in a dumpster. but on my home gaming machine i have some games that only run on windows so i just installed ollama's windows installer which works with my GPU and installs an autostart entry.

these days the windows box sits in a dark corner on my network with tailscale (again just the windows install), running sunshine too to start steam games on my laptop.