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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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Alternate title: "Linux lags on implementing AI features."
...Linux is open source, if you wanted/didn't want AI you could just install a distribution that has/ doesn't have it.
Don't bother. That troll has the dumbest takes on other topics too.
And the AI features on Windows can be disabled in settings, if you don't want AI there.
Does Linux actually have equivalents to the various Copilot features yet, though? I've been following a lot of open-source AI projects and they're all pretty much in their "just stood-up and kinda functional" state, far from something that's easily integrated into a desktop.
There is also nothing stopping you from creating your own distribution that has whatever features you want. Linux provides it's users with infite choices while on Windows a lot of those choices are made for you. Because linux is developed by users it often lags behind in some features, I predict we will see more AI integrated distributions pop up. There is a general distrust of Microsoft with this rollout, how many Microsoft programs do you close out of only to find it still running in the background? I haven't tried recal or windows 11 yet but I'd be concerned with my job (announced the switch to 11 starting next month) suddenly using it as a way to start monitoring employees because now the feature is "built in".
The non-existence of those features stops me.
bad troll is bad
edit: also
"diy"
"but i couldn't find any diy at the store!"
lmao
....yes, you'd have to make those features yourself. There's nothing stopping you... except a lack of knowledge.
You can make those features on Windows too, there's nothing unique about Linux in that regard.
Linux gives you the choice to use AI. Microsoft shove it down your throat so hard that even none techy people got scared.
Also, running local llms is easy and someone even remade Microsoft nightmarish recall future :
https://github.com/AbdBarho/ReRecall
From the link:
This repository was created a week ago and has had no updates since. This doesn't exactly counter the notion that Linux is lagging on implementing AI features.
bud, they explicitly said that's a linux implementation of microsoft's recall, which is itself only like a week old. it's not at all representative of all ai on linux, you're being purposely obtuse.
I'm commenting on what was presented to me.
Why would anybody want this?