Looks like a complete contraption to setup and looks very unpleasant to use at first glance when compared against Noiselith.
The hundreds of python scripts and having the user to touch the terminal shows why something like Noiselith should exist for normal users rather than developers or programmers.
I would rather take a packaged solution that just works over a bunch of scripts requiring a terminal.
Okay. I'll need to install it? What package might that be in, hmm. Moving on, I already know it's python.
> /usr not writeable
Guess I'll use sudo...
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Obviously I know better than to do this, but very few people would. This is not 'dead simple'! It's only simple for Python programmers who are already familiar with the ecosystem.
Now, fortunately the actual documentation does say to use venv. That's still not 'dead simple'; you still need to understand the commands involved. There's definitely space for a prepackaged binary.
The people that make software that does useful things, and the people that understand system security live on different planets. One day they'll meet each other and have a religious war.
This said, it's nice when developers attempt to detect the executable they need and warn what package is missing.
There are projects that set up "fat" Python executables or portable installs, but the problem in PyTorch ML projects is that the download would be many gigabytes.
Additionally, some package choices depend on hardware.
In the end, a lot of the more popular projects have "one click" scripts for auto installs, and there are some for Fooocus specifically, but the issue there is its not as visible as the main repo, and not necessarily something the dev wants to endorse.
You have to make trade-off in software development. Fooocus trades on the best picture rather than the most beautiful interface, and also simplicity in its use. I think it is a good trade-off given the technology is improving at breaking-neck speed.
Look, DiffusionBee is still maintained but still no SDXL support.
Anyone who bet that the technology is done and it is time to focus on the UI is making the wrong bet.
This project is really cool and I like the stated philosophy on the README. I think it's making the right trade-off in terms of setting useful defaults and not showing you 100 arcane settings. However, the installation is too hard. It's a student project and free so I'm not criticizing the author at all but I think it's a pretty fair and useful criticism of the software and likely a significant bottleneck to adoption.
Huh? It has a really simple interface, much much much simpler than anything else that uses SD/SDXL locally. Installation is also simple for Windows/Linux, don't know about macOS.
The hundreds of python scripts and having the user to touch the terminal shows why something like Noiselith should exist for normal users rather than developers or programmers.
I would rather take a packaged solution that just works over a bunch of scripts requiring a terminal.