I’ve had several people ask me how to set local AI up on a laptop or desktop computer so I decided to make a guide that cuts through a lot of beginner confusion. I run Windows, so I put wrote out the windows guide first, will do a writeup for Linux and Mac if I see any demand or requests. My guide Covers both LM Studio and Ollama, plus Open WebUI if someone wants a browser interface instead of working purely from a terminal.

Goes through model picks by RAM (what’s actually usable at 8/16/32/64GB+), GPU offloading, and a troubleshooting section for the stuff that actually trips people up — port conflicts, CUDA OOM errors, Ollama not showing up in PATH, that kind of thing.

It’s a paid guide, $10, https://indigonynja.gumroad.com/l/jqwisc

Happy to answer questions in the comments tell me your RAM/GPU and I’ll line out what to run, *I’m not an expert and I’m sure there’s other people on here that another stuff a lot better than me but I’m happy to help and any support is greatly appreciated!