Please don’t clutter the user home directory

Currently Ollama is writing into a directory in the user home, `~/.ollama`. However, the user home directory should be under the *user’s* control, and applications may only write into it if explicitly instructed to do so by the user. Settings etc. belong in OS-specific locations; in particular, under `~/Library` on macOS, under `%AppData%` or `%LocalAppData%` on Windows and, by convention, in directories following the [XDG basedir specification](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) on Linux.

Posted by klmr on Jul 27, 2023, 6:57 PM

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