[zozbot234]

> Ollama's popularity comes from the fact that it has a GUI

It's not the GUI, it's the curated model hosting platform. Way easier to use than HF for casual users.

[kgwgk]

It also made easy for casual users to think that they were running deepseek.

[Zetaphor]

LM Studio also offers curation, while giving credit to llama.cpp and also easy search across all of Huggingface's GGUF's