Instructor: Now in order to work with LM Studio
or to use it, we of course need to install it
and you can simply Google for LM Studio
or directly visit LMStudio.ai.
And from that website you can download
LM Studio for your system.
And it is supported on Mac OS,
which is what I'm using here,
but also for Windows and Linux.
If you click on download here,
you should also be taken to a screen
where you can configure and choose your operating system
and your variation of the operating system
and which version you wanna download,
if there are any options regarding that.
So if it did select the wrong operating system
for you here on that starting screen,
which typically should not happen,
but if it did not auto detect
your operating system correctly,
you can always go to this download page
and manually choose a different system.
And then from there,
you can download LM Studio or the installer for LM Studio,
and then of course, walk through the installation process
to install the LM Studio tool on your system.
Now, once you did download and install LM Studio,
you can start it.
And once you did that,
you should see some screen like this.
Now the exact look and feel can of course change over time,
but in general you should have a main chat window.
You should have a list of all your chats
so that you can go back to older chats.
Initially, of course, that's empty.
You should find a model loader
somewhere on your screen.
That's how we can load models for local usage,
and we'll do that together soon.
You will very likely also be able to switch
between different modes.
At the point of time where I'm recording this,
we got user, power user and developer mode.
And I'll get back to these modes later in this section.
And you should also be able
to access the settings of LM Studio.
Again, the exact look and structure
of this main screen can change over time,
but these features should all be there
somewhere in that tool.
And it's also under these settings here, by the way,
under app settings, where you can, for example,
choose the language of LM Studio
and switch to a different language
and where you can also configure the look and feel.
For example, whether you want to use dark mode,
sepia mode, light mode,
automatically detect that based on your system preferences
and so on.
Now, there may be more options at the point of time
where you are viewing this video,
but the default options should generally work for you.
And you can and should of course,
tweak the color theme at the look and feel
of your personal preferences.
And therefore, that's LM Studio installed.
As a next step, we now need to download
and install an open model,
which we wanna run on our system
so that we can then interact with it
through LM Studio.