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Comment by IceWreck | Hacker News Reader

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?

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.

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.

> Download Ollama’s new app today on macOS and Windows.

> For pure CLI versions of Ollama, standalone downloads are available on Ollama’s GitHub releases page.

Sound like closed source. Plus, As I check, the app seem to be tauri app, as it use system webview instead of chromium.

Electron… wonder how this can be marketed as native then.

Where are they marketing it as native?

Native webview? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nowhere on the page does it state “native”. The person who submitted the story introduced “native”

Also, this is not electron app. It does use system webview thought.

At least that is already an improvement, away from ChromeOS Development Platform.

If I already have to use a bundled web app, I prefer Electron. My system doesn't have a "system webview"; I don't have webkit-gtk installed/compiled.

If I have to use a Web app, I prefer a server URL.

Maybe the windows version runs under wine?

I believe power users or developers can already use this from CLI in Linux. This new app for Windows and MacOS shows this is intended for regular users.

Not releasing anything for Linux because regular users don't use it is a great way to never have regular users on Linux.

I am guessing that the Linux version was first (or the announcement was worded strangely), as it is available on their download page: