What are the best practices for installing and using local LLMs that a non-techy person might not know?

I’m still learning all this stuff and don’t have a formal background in tech. One thing that spurred me to answer this question is Docker. I don’t know much about it other than that people use it to keep their installations organized. Is it recommended for LLM usage? What about installing tools like llama.cpp and Open Code? If there are other things people learned along the way, I’d love to hear them. submitted by /u/A_Wild_Entei [link] [comments]