Jumping from this for visibility - LM Studio really is the best option out there. Ollama is another runtime that I've used, but I've found it makes too many assumptions about what a computer is capable of and it's almost impossible to override those settings. It often overloads weaker computers and underestimates stronger ones.

LM Studio isn't as "set it and forget it" as Ollama is, and it does have a bit of a learning curve. But if you're doing any kind of AI development and you don't want to mess around with writing llama-cpp scripts all the time, it really can't be beat (for now).