I had similar feelings but last week finally tried it in WSL2. Literally two shell commands and a largish download later I was chatting with mixtral on an agin

I had similar feelings but last week finally tried it in WSL2. Literally two shell commands and a largish download later I was chatting with mixtral on an aging 1070 at a positively surprising tokens/s (almost reading speed, kinda like the first chatgpt). Felt like magic.