If you just want to run a local LLM you could download ollama and do it in minut...

		sosodev 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model ... If you just want to run a local LLM you could download ollama and do it in minutes. You'll be limited to small models (I would start with qwen3:1.7b) but it should be quite fast.