I'm curious what people think of the non-open-source LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai) compared to Ollama.
* Super easy setup
* One-click download and load models/weights
* Works great
Dislikes:
* throws weights (in Windows) in /users/username/.cache in a proprietary directory structure, eating up tens of gigs without telling you or letting you share them with other clients
* won't let you import models you download yourself
* Search function is terrible
* I hate how it deals with instance settings
you can drop GGUF in the models folder following its structure and LM Studio will pick it up.
What I wish LMS and others improve on is downloading models. At the very least they should support resume and retry of failed downloads. Also multistream would help. Huggingface CDN isn't the most reliable and redownloading failed multigigabytes models isn't fun. Of course I could do it manually but then it's not "one-click download".