Okay gotta migrate off to stock Debian then I guess.

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@tante Oops! Looks like it's the end of the road for Shuttleworth's merry band of tricksters. I mean, I only run Ubuntu on certain boxes out of certain feature inertia, like CUDA and IEEE 1588 hardware timestamping (I have yet to enable my TimeNIC's 1PPS SMA I/Os and it requires driver modifications specific to a particular Ubuntu version). As soon as the features are shipped elsewhere, it gets #shitcanned

[fragarach@social.vivaldi.net]

@tante

So, this means I have to rethink my planned move to Zorin OS, since it's based on Ubuntu?

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@Fragarach gotta ask the Zorin folks. Maybe they'll keep their system clean?

[lu_leipzig@troet.cafe]

@tante Canonical doing what it does best, adding stuff that noone asked for. Not surprised at all that they're going down the AI route.

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@tante Oof! PopOS?

[smilingdemon@mastodon.art]

@tante @Fragarach the saving grace is most of the dedicated "AI" and "agentic" features are going to be Snaps which basically everyone else ignores. So fingers crossed it will be fairly Ubuntu contained.

[casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de]

@tante Well to be honest, with Ubuntu it has been a gradual development for many years now.

[jcnotwit@mastodon.social]

@tante Have the Mint team released a statement about how they're going to handle this? My search-fu is failing me.

[rstub@digitalcourage.social]

@spdrnl Same here. Would be interesting to hear from @pop_os_official what their plans are.
@tante

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@tante Since it seems to be happening all over the place, you kind of have to wonder: Who the hell asked for all this?

[stege@rollenspiel.social]

@tante i wonder if this does also applies for Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu. Because i avoided the main ubuntu already.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@Stege probably.

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@rstub @pop_os_official @tante System76 is doing a great job. I'll be looking into getting a laptop of theirs when the time comes.

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@grumpydad @tante

Same folks who asked for nuclear strike resilient data network in the 1970s

[lrhodes@merveilles.town]

@tante A recurring pattern I see is of FOSS devs getting drawn into LLMs in limited situations on their own time (Segar: "I've found LLMs to be an excellent learning tool"), and rapidly scaling up integration so that they're soon unavoidable — excuse me: "implicit" — in the projects they maintain.

[carepackage17@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tante oof, same. Guess it's time to move all my data someplace safe and nuke that OS partition. Fucking hell.

[fedops@fosstodon.org]

@jcnotwit no idea but their thoughts behind the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) all of a sudden seem quite timely:

"Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. "

@tante

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[lrhodes@merveilles.town]

@iain @tante When they turn to vibecoding, sure. But integrating AI features into a project doesn't decrease workload — it's a new feature that has to be deployed and maintained. That's more work, not less.

[turre@mementomori.social]

@tante
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm mostly surprised it took them this long.

It's like the whole damn IT world decided they're lemmings and suddenly need to jump off that AI cliff.

Hmm. There would probably be quite some positives in that outcome. But this period before they reach the cliff is horrible to everybody.

[lrhodes@merveilles.town]

@iain @tante It's still more work than if they had just transitioned to vibecoding updates on the existing feature set. Maybe some devs think they can use vibecoding to expand a project while still reducing the commitments that lead to burnout, but that's hype-powered cognitive dissonance.