[HN Gopher] Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
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Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
Author : BUFU
Score : 69 points
Date : 2025-07-30 21:19 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| rihegher wrote:
| "Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows" linux
| sounds out for now
| amelius wrote:
| Shouldn't the LLM be able to code the linux version?
| permalac wrote:
| Vibe coding?
| pkaye wrote:
| Click the download button and you will see Linux as an option.
| mchiang wrote:
| Linux does not have the interface right now, and there are a
| lot of options for users. Open WebUI is an awesome project.
|
| https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
| 8thcross wrote:
| a little too late i think.
| thimabi wrote:
| 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.
| IceWreck wrote:
| 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?
| johncolanduoni wrote:
| 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.
| zettabomb wrote:
| The Element app on Linux is currently broken (if you want to
| use encryption, so basically for everyone) due to an issue
| with Electron. Luckily it still works in a regular browser.
| I'm really baffled by how that can happen.
| ceroxylon wrote:
| I am guessing that the Linux version was first (or the
| announcement was worded strangely), as it is available on their
| download page:
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| https://ollama.com/download
| nicce wrote:
| Electron... wonder how this can be marketed as native then.
| swyx wrote:
| 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
| noman-land wrote:
| I, too, dream of this.
| mchiang wrote:
| this is something we are working on. I don't have a specific
| timeline since it's done when its done, but it is being worked
| on.
| syspec wrote:
| I've been using Open WebUI and have been blown away, it's a
| better ChatGPT interface than ChatGPT!
|
| https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
|
| Curious how this compares to that, which has a ton of features
| and runs great
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