Can we please not? People are leaving Windows because it slaps AI to everywhere unnecessary
There will be plenty of distros that don't. Ubuntu tracks as the first one that would.
I think RHEL and Fedora did first, could be wrong though
People running away from windows shouldn't chose ubuntu then, It might be the most popular distro- and somany people who do use it have similar nonchalant mindset as of windows users, so we people who don't want shit like that in our operating systems shouldnt use it.
Use Debian
If you want what Ubuntu promised, use Fedora. If you learned a bit after trying Ubuntu, use Debian. If you tried Ubuntu and kinda miss the ease of Windows, use Mint. If you think all of these options sound way too practical, try anything but Arch.
Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linux distros.
If they get it right (opt in by default, respects privacy, appropriately sandboxed for security, clearly defined use case, etc.) then I can see how this could be useful.
But it's a big if.
yup. at the moment if you want a truly private, properly useful local AI agent you basically have to set one up correctly, manually, yourself. Having one come as part of the OS already largely set up for the user would be a massive W.
but yeah, If.
I still don't understand how AI would be useful even if I owned the whole stack from the power station on up
Yet another reason to use a different distro.
Don't worry, Ubuntu users, it'll be optional. They will respect your choi... oh you've already left
I remember when Ubuntu was good. It sure isn't now.
I'm old too.
We'll damn, lubuntu was my goto for older hardware.
I also have a plan for Ubuntu Linux...
Okay, I understand that Linux Mint can be Ubuntu or Debian.. But as a Mint user, would these changes even take place on my end? I don't entirely understand how these versions are forked. I don't believe I use Ubuntu... But is mint just built on a new Ubuntu infrastructure?
Can someone smarter than me please help? Lol
So from my cursory research (I am a Debian user for context) it sounds like base mint is based off of Ubuntu and LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is directly based off of Debian.
The fact that Mint is based on Ubuntu does not necessarily mean that these Ai features will make it in. The Mint maintainers are still in charge of what comes prepackaged in the distro and can remove what they/the community does not like. I'm not sure on their alignment/history so I can't say for sure which way they will go.
If you use LMDE then the Mint maintainers don't need to remove the Ai features wince they were never in there in the first place.
Sorry I can't give you a direct yes or no... And this might be a lot of info that you already knew but hopefully this helps some others too.
I see people commenting like it's always a bad idea to implement AI. I think it can be a very useful tool and running locally seems beneficial. Is there no right way to do this?
What's wrong with providing it as a package? Why does it have to be part of the OS?
I don't know enough to know the benefit of doing it within the OS vs just a package.
If it's local, unobtrusive, and optional, I don't see the issue. I'm thinking like the full line code completion in intellij, that's actually useful.
One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday detailing plans to add AI features to the Linux distro over the next year. As the post states, the AI features “will come in two forms: first as a means of enhancing existing OS functionality with AI models in the background, and latterly in the form of ‘AI native’ features and workflows for those who want them.”
These features will range from accessibility tools like improved speech-to-text and text-to-speech to agentic AI features for tasks like troubleshooting or personal automation. According to Seager, Canonical will be prioritizing model transparency and local inference when adding these AI features. Behind the scenes, Canonical is also encouraging its engineers to use AI more, but Seager noted that “I will not be measuring people at Canonical by how much they use AI, but rather continue to measure them on how well they deliver.”
Seager goes on to add that AI features could potentially help new users navigate the “famously fragmented” Linux desktop ecosystem: “If we’re careful about how we employ LLMs in a system context, they could demystify the capabilities of a modern Linux workstation and bring them to a much wider audience.”
Yes. Agentically automate rm / -rf
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