[rks404]

noob question - how hard is it to setup and run this on a windows machine? I've had bad luck with python and package management in windows in the past but that was a long time ago.

[rm999]

It's gotten much easier in the 24 hours because of this binary release of a popular stable diffusion setup+UI: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/rele...

(you still need a Nvidia GPU)

Extract the zip file and run the batch file. Find the cptk (checkpoint) file for a model you want. You can find openjourney here: https://huggingface.co/openjourney/openjourney/tree/main. Add it to the model directory.

Then you just need to go to a web browser and you can use the AUTOMATIC1111 webui. More information here: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

[rks404]

oh this is so great - thanks!

[andybak]

Yeah - it's a real pain (and I'm a Python dev)

I just use https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm

- A few manual steps but mainly a well tested installed that does it all for you.

[rks404]

thank you, I appreciate the honesty! I checked out the guide, it looks promising and will give it a try for the next system I assemble

[jpe90]

If you use the webui it's a single git clone and an optional file edit to set some CLI flags and that's it. You download models and move them to a directory to use them. Recently they introduced a binary release for people that are unfamiliar with git.