At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss good that I am not using Ubuntu! I explicitly switched away from Windows to get rid of slop and bad business practices.
I am using Mint (which is based on Ubuntu). Wondering if it is time to switch to the Mint Debian Edition or something else entirely.
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss
Mark is out of his mind. The huge mass of Linux users have NO USE for AI. -
At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss Since Ubuntu main focus seems to be on running in WSL instead of native, this makes sense for his business with Microsoft. It is nonsense for people who fled from Windows, but there's no problem: Mint has their backs and is already working on a solution (LMDE) if they need to pull the plug from Ubuntu
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss
First of all: So good we can choose in the Linux world: if you agree, stick with Ubuntu. If not, pick one out of so many other distros out there.
As an answer to the question itself: I am very sceptical about the unreflected massive use of AI burning millions of trees for useless slops. On the other hand there are so many possibilities that it might seem wise to carefully integrate functions into our systems. It is a tool just like a calculator is. -
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss there are people who certainly like it, but Linux users? I'm pretty sure most of us don't. Sad to see how the greatest linux distro has fallen, but kingdoms never lasts forever.
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@itsfoss BTW I’ll still run Arch.
@bitterseeds @itsfoss Fedora is my choice.
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss Canonical saw what people think about windows and it's copilot integration and said: "Yep, That's exactly what we need to do next!".
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss Ubuntu, be the flagship Linux distro for agentic AI? More like, Ubuntu desperately trying to be relevant in 2026
And, this is coming from someone that actually values AI EXTREMELY strongly as a Linux user, unlike the mass of Luddites in the replies.
Ubuntu is just garbage.
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At the Ubuntu Summit in London, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth made a claim that is hard to ignore: Ubuntu 26.04 is the operating system for the AI agentic era.
Not just for AI users. For the era itself.
His argument starts with a simple observation. AI is no longer something you interact with through a chat window. It is becoming agentic.
Agree with Mark?
@itsfoss I have recently learned that the startup "agentic solution to [business task]" market is getting crowded. So yes, I kind of see it coming. The problem is that certain business-bros want their data pulled up stat when they ask the AI. But they also want the data to be reliable. These startups are selling that they can solve these issues with the power of totally-not-an-llm-wrapper (agentic)...? Can they do that? Can they do that better, easier and cheaper than just hiring a data person?
