Exploring LM Studio

Monday, June 1, 2026

Today, I explored LM-Studio as it was introduced by my boss since I played with Ollama before.


I was able to install it easily in my Macbook using brew and in Windows using winget. But for somewhat reason, I can't get it to work in my Linux machine.


There are a few features that caught my attention:

  1. UI is really clean.
  2. It comes with a lot of information about the AI model. This might be because I enabled the developer mode.
  3. I can download new model right from the app itself.
  4. It also provides list of endpoints for REST call which is really nice.
  5. Before I download a model, it will let me know if the model is too big for my machine to handle. This is a big help.

Check it out at https://lmstudio.ai/