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Ubuntu is Going Big on AI (But Not The Copilot Kind You Dread)

Canonical's plan favors local inference and open models over cloud-dependent AI services.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/770f028e-ab0a-4553-a2f8-d7c3c419df6c/ubuntu-ai-whatRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:10:59 GMTTue, 28 Apr 2026 21:00:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:35:19 GMT]]>@analogfusion only time will tell

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/itsfoss/statuses/116493210078456070https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/itsfoss/statuses/116493210078456070Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:35:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:50:14 GMT]]>@itsfoss
I have no problems with such things as long as it's opt-in and I can choose wether to use it or not.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/simondeutschl/statuses/116488550130853287https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/simondeutschl/statuses/116488550130853287Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:50:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:39:48 GMT]]>@datenteiler @itsfoss Thanks. I'm going to switch from Ubuntu 👍

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ati1/statuses/116486621689557134https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ati1/statuses/116486621689557134Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:39:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:44:41 GMT]]>@itsfoss I can't wait to see this. I feel it would be the future of how we use computers

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116476612578489427/statuses/116486404954536199https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116476612578489427/statuses/116486404954536199Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:44:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:25:12 GMT]]>@ati1
I use LMDE 7 on my MacBook from 2011 an it runs like a charme. A well oiled machine.

@itsfoss

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/datenteiler/statuses/116486328349980978https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/datenteiler/statuses/116486328349980978Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:25:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:46:35 GMT]]>@itsfoss Oh great, even more crap Mint has to strip out along all the broken Rust code and utils. Really starting to think I need to switch to LMDE or just go straight up Debian.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.io/users/Waldoshere/statuses/116485232787140251https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.io/users/Waldoshere/statuses/116485232787140251Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:46:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:19:34 GMT]]>@ubuntuportugal @itsfoss yes I understand, that is what I meant by opt in not baked in and enabled by default.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/ruenoak/statuses/116485126534711309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/ruenoak/statuses/116485126534711309Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:19:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:22:12 GMT]]>@ruenoak on Ubuntu you'll have to enable it.
@itsfoss

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.pt/users/ubuntuportugal/statuses/116484665006115134https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.pt/users/ubuntuportugal/statuses/116484665006115134Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:22:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:16:18 GMT]]>@ati1 @itsfoss Give it a shot. You won't really know if you like it until you try it. Linux Mint was the first distro I stuck with in order to learn my way around.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mrgrumpymonkey/statuses/116484641842285789https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mrgrumpymonkey/statuses/116484641842285789Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:16:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:33:24 GMT]]>@itsfoss I don't have a problem with this, Canonical/Ubuntu is enterprise so they have to keep up and keep moving forward. The difference here is, in Ubuntu you will be able to disable it, at the moment by removing the AI snap packages. Unlike other OS's where it is backed in forced on you. It looks like it is an opt in, I would like to see maybe in the future the AI functionality be an option in the installer similar to how third party apps are handled.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/ruenoak/statuses/116484473103451831https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/ruenoak/statuses/116484473103451831Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:33:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:20:16 GMT]]>@itsfoss Great. Nice.... So how's Mint Debian Edition doing? Do we have LMDE users here? I do no gaming 😉 and I'm thinking of switching on my Thinkpad after positive first impressions with regular Mint on T2 Macbooks. (Mint boots 2x faster on 2018 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM than Ubuntu on ThinkPad with 2x more RAM and 5-6x faster CPU 🙆‍♂️).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ati1/statuses/116484421477123825https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ati1/statuses/116484421477123825Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:20:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu, AI, what? on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:11:50 GMT]]>@itsfoss As always, my only question will be how to turn it off.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/analogfusion/statuses/116484388335339585https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/analogfusion/statuses/116484388335339585Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:11:50 GMT