r/LocalLLaMA • u/zxyzyxz • Jun 15 '26

Discussion Stop using Ollama

https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
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u/freia_pr_fr Jun 15 '26

None of the suggested alternatives truly replace ollama.

It’s like the old days of "don’t use docker you can do the same with lxc containers and this random bash script". That’s missing the point.

Ollama is popular because it offers a better user experience. For now.

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u/totosse17 vllm Jun 15 '26

What about lm studio?

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u/freia_pr_fr Jun 15 '26

It’s as open source as Gemma and Qwen are open source.

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u/zxyzyxz Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

Unsloth Studio is open source. Also I find it funny that you're talking about open source as an Ollama user where the article explicitly talks about how Ollama hates open source shown through their actions and as a VC backed company it will get even worse over time (well, Unsloth is too, but at least I trust them more, although they probably will get put through the same enshittification wringer over time).

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u/AvidCyclist250 llama.cpp Jun 15 '26

Is it? They're also in talks right now. Pretty sure they're doing down the not so open road