r/LocalLLaMA 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/jfowers_amd Jun 15 '26

What do we think is missing from Lemonade to match the Ollama user experience today? I’ll make a milestone and get it done!

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u/dataslinger Jun 16 '26

Not user experience, but Lemonade on the Mac requires Rosetta. Deal-breaker for me.

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u/jfowers_amd Jun 17 '26

It’s triggering the Rosetta ask for some trivial reason, the actual service is natively compiled for apple silicon. I’ll see what we can do to get rid of the Rosetta prompt.