The models seem to have gotten to a point where even something I can run locally will give decent results in a reasonable time. What is currently "the best" (both from an output quality and ease of installation perspective) setup to just play with local a) image generation, b) image editing?
For runtime, I use ComfyUi [0] which is node based and therefore a bit hard to learn. But you can just look at the examples on their github. Foocus [1] also seems to be popular and a bit more conventional perhaps, though I didn't try it.
For models, Flux [2] is pretty good and quite straightforward to use. (In general, you will have a runtime and then you have to get the model weights seperately). Which Flux variant depends on your graphics card, the Flux.1 schnell should work for most decently modern ones. (And the website, civitai.com is a repository for models and other associated tools.)
EasyDiffusion is almost completely download and run, i'm too lazy to setup comfyui, I just want to do model downloads -> run easy diffusion -> input my prompts into the web UI -> start cooking my poor graphics card
