It definitely depends on what you are trying to get out of it.

I'll grant: low lag audio performance in Windows is... dismal. Which is why everyone had conference call lag adjustment issues in 2020, "go ahead", "no you go ahead", "ok" - both start talking simultaneously again... It seems better these days, I'm sure that's at least in part due to training of the conference participants, but maybe they have been working on getting the lag down without too many dropout / stutters.

We have a bespoke low lag audio system that was specifically implemented in Linux even though we put the GUI in Windows because of those lag / stutter issues, years back the audio was done on a dedicated DSP chip, but a Core i7 is more than up to the task on Linux these days.

The Linux audio pains I refer to were: A) audio just doesn't work at all, and B) audio works, until you start to try to use two audio applications simultaneously - then they start to mess each other up. Both of those were better in Windows long before Linux came up to speed. But a lot of how Windows audio gets acceptable performance is big laggy buffers.

Attitudes develop over time... his may indeed be a defense mechanism or simply a response to all that hate.

things before were way worse… why not throw Sticks and stones at those people?

My earliest memories of Linux audio were in Slackware in the mid 90s, reading and re-reading the HOWTO that started off with a bunch of attitude about how real computer users don't need audio, but we can do it anyway "so, if you must hear Biff bark..." and then a bunch of very unhelpful things to try following that never ever worked on any system I ever tried to use them on. Diverse systems that, of course, all played audio through Windows flawlessly.

But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

You mean like Linus Torvalds?

90mb ram

If you're in a system where 256mb of RAM is the limit, sure - go for the RAM efficient OS options, they're out there.

Can you even buy less than 2GB of RAM in a desktop system anymore? Even the Raspberry Pi 5 starts at 2GB (and, yes, the older models have less, but I did say desktop system, implying: reasonable desktop performance.) Maybe if you feel the need to use a RasPi 3 as a desktop for something then you should dig around for one of your more efficient OS configurations, but I'll note... back when RasPi 3 was the new model, Raspbian came default without systemd, but offered a systemd option. The systemd option booted from power off to the desktop (such as it was) in about 1/3 the time.

With AI, you can be 100% sure you can use the image however you want, without any repercussions.

For now... maybe. The courts haven't really settled that issue yet.

You are saying it's Grok TACO Wednesday, again?

I don't think the system has that much sophistication.

I do think they can "weight" the training set and feed it endless variations of "approved content" to be regarded as correct, and maybe also feed it other content to be identified as "incorrect" and rebutted from the approved content.

Last time I checked, Grok was still 'woke' (meaning: repeating the most common opinions published around the internet) - that's been a couple of months. I was shocked that it was permitted to be accessed by the public back then.

I'm beginning to think those people are already lost... anyone who is going to fall for this has already fallen for similar things and reflexively distrusts anything that doesn't back up their world views.

I also think people who are opposed to this are very unlikely to change their minds based on something controlled by someone like that.

Finally, we've been at this hard for almost a decade, I'm pretty sure the undecideds are lying to the pollsters.

being able to do 30% of tasks successfully is already useful.

If you have a good testing program, it can be.

If you use AI to write the test cases...? I wouldn't fly on that airplane.

We've hired a bunch of Indian guys who are using AI to do their work... the results are marginally better than either approach independently.