Ollama 0.40.11 Hands-On: Running Local LLMs on Windows
Ollama 0.40.11 gives Windows users a desktop chat application and a local model runtime for other software. Ollama has also moved beyond its original command-line interface, adding a searchable model selector, image attachments, and links to coding tools. Some controls we needed for testing still live in PowerShell and model configuration files.
We installed Ollama on our HP Z4 Rack G5 running Windows 11 Pro for Workstations, with 128GB of RAM and an NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation GPU. Using our existing Jan V3.5 4B and Jan V2 VL High GGUFs, we tested generation speed, chat, images, online…
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