The preference for Ollama over llama.cpp is almost certainly due to having a better user experience. Hacker News is in an endless cycle of not understanding how

The preference for Ollama over llama.cpp is almost certainly due to having a better user experience. Hacker News is in an endless cycle of not understanding how important user experience is, even often more important than the underlying technology itself. Setting up and using Ollama is much easier than setting up something like llama.cpp even for the more technically oriented.