Ollama + DeepSeek: How I Run LLMs Locally
Why I Use Ollama I wanted to run LLMs on my own hardware without paying for API calls or sending data to the cloud. Ollama made that straightforward — install, pull a model, start chatting. Install Ollama Arch Linux Update your system, then install Ollama: sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S ollama Enable and start the service: sudo systemctl enable ollama sudo systemctl start ollama sudo systemctl status ollama You should see active (running). ...