I am looking at resintalling my OS (currently Mint) which I have been running for a few years.

Mint is great and I may end up going back; but was thinking of trying something new.

I want to be able to play with local models and agents; I have a pretty decent system.

  • AMD 3700X
  • 64 GB DDR4
  • AMD RX9070 16GB GPU
  • 2TB NVME SSD
  • A few TB of HDD's

What are some good options for easily running models and agents; I have been using ollama to run models; but I'm sure things have moved on since I begun playing with things a year ago.

Give me a few tips; I am going to have a bit of time on my hands over the next few months.

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[–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Interesting; what do you suggest to run in its place?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    I started with ollama then moved to llama.cpp directly and just use it through llama-server and my own custom code now. The lack of ability to use mmproj for community models (meaning things like vision processing in uncensored qwen did not work at all!) plus the fact that I had to edit a modelfile every time I want to change temperature pushed me over the edge to figure out the rough edges around llama.cpp. There have been a few bumps in the road, but it's been worth doing overall.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    The blog article recommends you go straight to the source and use llama.cpp and it's llama-server. And they mention a few other options as well. I did that for a while, but I'm mostly using KoboldCPP. Guess it depends on what people are trying to accomplish, but it's packed with features, fairly easy to set up and operate and does images and audio as well. (But then I don't use AI all that much, so maybe don't take advice from me.)

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