# Summary for ST Beginners WIP
Hello everyone. This is a brief summary of the most frequently asked questions I receive. I will try to provide concise answers and summaries for all topics. I'm not an expert, LLM is just a hobby in my free time. It's only my way to set up things, feel free to skip chapters. I will not turn myself in to support on call, if something isn't working - try to google it yourself or go to ST-discord support channels to cry about it. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong somewhere with proper arguments.

# I'm a Noob, How Do I Run LLM?
## What and How Can I Run, and How Do I Properly Install and Set Up Any of This?
### On What All This Is Running On?
* python
* miniconda
### From Where We Can Start?

* Download and first SillyTavern-Launcher start and close.

### What Can I Run on My Machine?
* NVIDIA exl2

NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> CUDA - Sysmem Fallback Policy : Prefer No Sysmem Fallback

  - oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  
    oobabooga is a name of creator text-generation-webui but every one call text-generation-webui as oobabooga, ooba ...
    https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
  
  - TabbyAPI
  
    https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI

* Other GPU/APU gguf
  - Koboldcpp
  
    https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
  - Ollama
  
    https://github.com/ollama/ollama
  - Others

* Web API

### Set up Windows Terminal - PowerShell - oh-my-posh Setup - Conda env - git UI. Do I Need To Do All Of This?

You don't.

* Set up Conda env in PowerShell
  ```
  conda init powershell
  ```

* oh-my-posh Setup
  
  Intro and how to setup https://www.hanselman.com/blog/my-ultimate-powershell-prompt-with-oh-my-posh-and-the-windows-terminal
  
  After all done open in editor selected theme and this segment where you want. (find "segments": [ )
  ```
  {
      "background": "#FFDE57",
      "foreground": "#111111",
      "powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
      "properties": {
      "home_enabled": true,
      "display_mode": "environment",
      "fetch_virtual_env": true,
      "display_virtual_env": true,
      "fetch_version": true
      },
      "style": "powerline",
      "template": " \ue235 {{ .Full }}{{ if .Venv }} {{ .Venv }}{{ end }} ",
      "type": "python"
  }
  ```

## How to Properly Install ST?
    * SillyTavern-Launcher
## How to Use?
    * Cards
        - chub.ai 
    * User Settings
    * Extensions
        - Where Can I Find More?
## How Does It Work?
## What is a Context Template and Why Should I Care About It?
## Author's Note/LoreBook?
## What Else Can I Use with ST, and How to Install and Set Up All of This?
    * SillyTavern-extras
    * XTTS
    * StableDiffusion
## How to Change ST to Look Like Yours?
    * CSS
## What More Can I Do?
    * STscript
    * mergekit
    * exllamav2