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Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Big tech will do what is best for extracting money customers and investors.
If you really care what your operating system is made of, use Linux.
In the near future, probably within 12 months, all the standard features of Windows will be gone. The won't be any Explorer, there won't be any Start menu, there won't be any opening screen.
There will just be a prompt and you say "computer, open yesterdays word file", like in Star Trek. There won't be any "apps" to install - you'll just say "phone, open the order menu for Boise City Chick-Fil-A" and it will navigate automatically to the page.
Sure, if you're a total weirdo you will be able to install a bash shell and navigate manually, but hardly anyone will do that.
BTW, AI is being introduced into Linux as well.
Linux kernel? Where?
Assuming you mean distro, where is it in Debian?
If I want AI I can always install llama or similar locally.
Even if it were true (which I'm pretty sure it isnt) so what? The whole benefit of free software is people can fork it and make their own version if they dont like where it is headded.
If I were to be more cynical, I'd say the ultimate goal of technobros, within a decade, is this: