Good. Let the slopwares collapse into themselves, from GNU/Linux, to Hurd (sadly) and Ubuntu.
Trisquel will be damned, but Hyperbola BSD -after Hyperbola GNU- will be like the Phoenix bird.
I don't get this focus on the technology that's driving the features, over the features themselves.
Maybe I'm just not the typical Linux user anymore, but as a user, when I think about what I want feature-wise from software, I think in terms of concrete features: I want X, Y, and Z new functionality. If the developer can "use AI" to power it, fine. If they use traditional algorithms to power it, also fine. If they use literal sorcery to power it, great, I don't care.
At no point in my life have I ever said "I want technology ABC to power features, but I don't really have in mind what those features might be."
well, I guess I left Ubuntu just in time for the inevitable AI enshittification.
I stayed even as Unity and Gnome 3 made the rounds (which I was also unhappy about), but changed a month ago to a European Linux and Desktop Environment.
They're going to be adding a bunch of AI features. They don't have any plan for what the features are, but they will definitely be AI.
This is almost as dumb as rebranding a shoe company as an AI company, or your tea brand as a blockchain brand.
The only clue they have is the incredibly generic "explain system logs". That's it, that's the only AI feature they've come up with so far. What an absolute load.
I'd rather the system start managing models rather than each app doing their own thing. Whether that's engineering for and supporting KServe and inference snaps, an Ollama systemd service, or something else I don't care. But it's time to get serious about system tooling around AI.
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But if AI is going to be the new snap, I think more people will switch to Debian despite their ancient kernel and applications.
Maybe I'm just not the typical Linux user anymore, but as a user, when I think about what I want feature-wise from software, I think in terms of concrete features: I want X, Y, and Z new functionality. If the developer can "use AI" to power it, fine. If they use traditional algorithms to power it, also fine. If they use literal sorcery to power it, great, I don't care.
At no point in my life have I ever said "I want technology ABC to power features, but I don't really have in mind what those features might be."
I stayed even as Unity and Gnome 3 made the rounds (which I was also unhappy about), but changed a month ago to a European Linux and Desktop Environment.
This is almost as dumb as rebranding a shoe company as an AI company, or your tea brand as a blockchain brand.
The only clue they have is the incredibly generic "explain system logs". That's it, that's the only AI feature they've come up with so far. What an absolute load.