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@mastodon.social we're all tired of hearing about how great AI supposedly is, is it not yet the time for a new buzzword
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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 Makes me think about what Richard Stallman says about Ubuntu
I can only imagine what people who fled Windows to Ubuntu because of the enshittification are going to think 🫤
At least what I've read seems somewhat sensible, for now. I genuinely hope Canonical has the best intentions in mind
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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?
This is why Linux Mint is better. It is Community-Maintained with maintainers all over the world. It would be very difficult to actually push this AI crud or enforce Identity Verification if anyone can remove it. Companies like Canonical (the ones who owns Ubuntu) can always be paid off or forced into compliance as they are the centralised power to convince or go after. There is really no reason not to use Linux Mint when it is basically just Ubuntu without Canonical's shady practices. @itsfoss
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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 this post's caption reads like gen AI, specifically claude...
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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 BTW I’ll still run Arch.
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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 immediate thought after hearing this
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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?
I'm sure if there was an agentic AI era, Windows would be the operating system for it, seeing as it has spent gazillions of dollars on exactly that over the last couple of years. And that's how it should stay. I don't want that stuff in Linux. It's sad to see this guy has boarded the hype train.
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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 He's like all the other #fomo #ai guys talking about a new golden era. Question is: golden era for whom?
As an average user you get hallucinating models, bias amplification, unpredictable environmental costs and training data that's impossible to audit.
As one of the AI boosters you want to maximise you're profits. But the only guy who's earning not burning money is Jen-Hsun Huang. And the #datacenter #industry. -
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 do my agents have to learn how to answer "would you like to upgrade to Ubuntu pro" ?
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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 can we fix the snap load times first
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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.
