I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one.

[cholling@bytes.programming.dev]

@bodil Aurora Linux brags on their homepage about enabling "local AI workflows". Not sure how that differs from what Canonical is doing.

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@cholling It's the difference between being able to install Ollama and coming preinstalled with Copilot, I guess.

[kaliranya@vtuber.house]

@cholling @bodil Just noticed the same. I'm not looking to jump from one pro-AI distro to another >.<

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@kaliranya @cholling At the moment, the only distro with an explicit anti-AI policy is Gentoo.

[pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe]

@bodil nooooon pas Linux (oui, je sais, le principe de Linux c'est que y a Linux et Linux, mais quand même )

[crow@cville.online]

@bodil What do you think is a good replacement for Ubuntu for a relatively unskilled #Linux user? I won’t tolerate #aislop.

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@crow Fedora.

[kernelvoid@mastodon.social]

@crow @bodil zorin O.S

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@kernelvoid @crow Zorin OS is built on Ubuntu. ‍️

[kernelvoid@mastodon.social]

@bodil @crow yes, specifically Ubuntu LTS

[allpoints@mstdn.social]

@bodil +1

Allpoints (@allpoints@mstdn.social)

@pluralistic@mamot.fr I recommend two, readily available, though perhaps not inexpensive, commercial items in response. A drone and a can of spray foam insulation. This is where I'm supposed to add that this is a joke. I am explicitly not adding that.

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[ruoff@norden.social]

@bodil Dito. After some bad experiences regarding "legacy hardware support", I decided that Ubuntu could not be relied upon.

[tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@bodil@treehouse.systems @crow@cville.online Fedora is a slop jankfest. The only thing they do good is that they can read the room and not push it to default installations.

[tekchip@mastodon.social]

@crow @bodil Fedora, specifically Silverblue (gnome) or Kinoite (kde). They're immutable which means you can't (easily) break the OS and it's versioned so if an update happens to break something it's fairly easy to roll back.

However, if you want to be open to tinkering and learning how your system works regular old Fedora is the way to go.

[bodil@social.treehouse.systems]

@tragivictoria @crow That's precisely the line Ubuntu crossed, and I'm not recommending Arch to novices, so Fedora it is.

[dekablack@mastodon.social]

@bodil AI in Linux.WTF????

[crow@cville.online]

@bodil @kernelvoid But would that mean #zorin will end up infected witih #aislop?

[vantablack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bodil What does this mean for distros built on Ubuntu like Mint? Will they have AI features too or will that be up to the distro?

I am currently using Mint and I REALLY don't want to use an operating system that is going to start adding AI features. At the very least with Linux I would hope it is easy to disable at least.

[oldfartphil@mastodon.social]

@crow @bodil #Debian was the easiest transition for me when I moved away from Ubuntu. Aside from dealing with Debian's old-school installer (depending on the installation method you choose) and having to add a couple of Gnome Shell extensions, you'll hardly notice a difference in day to day use.

[oggie@woof.group]

@bodil

to use a simpsons-ism, 'Why now? Why not years ago?'

To be clear, fuck AI and all this stuff, but if you ARE going to weirdly sell out and do shitty things, why wait till the sentiment is FIRMLY against it? Like 2 years ago there was probably a window where people would have been 'okay I guess' as an optional feature.

Now, fortunatley, basically everyone is on team 'HELL NO', so...just seems a baffling choice!