llama.cpp + LM Studio

Both are great projects, one will serve a personal local ai computing , one will serve multiple purposes.

Yes, LM Studio is built on top of llama.cpp with an UI.

LM Studio: https://lmstudio.ai/

llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/build.md

i personally pick llama and gguf models on hugging faces like: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke?search_models=GGUF