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For the desktop apps on this page, Windows and macOS are the smoother ride. LM Studio, Jan, AnythingLLM, and Ollama all install natively, GPU drivers come from the usual places, and nothing requires a terminal. Linux earns its keep one level down: the production serving engines, vLLM and SGLang, are Linux-first, multi-GPU serving effectively assumes it, and some of the newest acceleration paths land there before anywhere else, including AMD’s Ryzen AI NPU support, which arrived on Linux and wants a very recent kernel. The gap is narrower than it used to be. AMD unified its ROCm releases across