[IceWreck]

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?

[johncolanduoni]

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.

[zettabomb]

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.

[nguyenkien]

> 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.

[nicce]

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

[andsoitis]

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

[nguyenkien]

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

[epcoa]

Where are they marketing it as native?

[e12e]

Maybe the windows version runs under wine?

[vismit2000]

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.

[stavros]

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

[ceroxylon]

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

https://ollama.com/download

[DarkmSparks]

thats just the cli versions.

this app got gui.