They are building OSes like RAM is free.
Please, just focus on getting Linux working on ARM
Use Debian. Debian has been committed to protecting the freedom of its users since inception.
Outdated packages, but FREEDOM!
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This might be a shocking concept, but some people need their stuff to actually work!
Anything still broken after updating again is actually unnecessary bloat, or else it wouldn’t still be broken
To your average Linux user… why care if things “work”, what’s important is that you have the FREEDOM to break everything!
But seriously, yeah, that’s a valid criticism of many distros, depending on your use case. You need to choose the right one for your needs.
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The packages are not outdated, they are frozen for up to a 2 year period for stability and security. The packages receive security patches regularly. The last package freeze was July 2025. If you need software which is newer than July 2025, you can install it with flatpak. Also Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint uses the same package release schedule.
with a bias on local inferencing by default
bias
mfers, i’ll have to pihole every single operating system in 5 years, like what the fuck
I was rather pleased when the littlesnitch dev switched to Linux and discovered that there isn’t a lot of phoning home on Linux desktops.
i don’t mind terribly local ai models whatever, local photolibraries has been doing them for a while, i mind a lot unobvious behavior (bias). win10 start search is also biased to local, it’s still feeds everything into bing
also, linux is shit at using npu, how on earth are they integrating this stuff, on gpus? (i think they’ve integrated them in last 6 months, with questionable availability on other open software to them, ollama or otherwise)
local photolibraries has been doing them for a while
Yeah it’s pretty neat, sort of feels like you are running your own personal surveillance program on your friends.
For me at least it’s pretty counterproductive if the OS indexes all contents of all my files and includes them in a global search. That’s just going to be a lot of noise and lead to worse search results. And it’s a huge drain on computer resources and battery life. I don’t like it on MacOS either. And that to me seems like one of the most conservative adoption scenarios.
also, linux is shit at using npu, how on earth are they integrating this stuff, on gpus?
Canonical could just fix that probably.
it’s more like multitude of albums concurrently existing (by date/location/people/animals) tbh, it’s not like i surveil anything we didn’t take picture together of.
the most conservative and sane way is probably voice to text and translation, they can be neatly collapsed in local submenus, the search is meh-meh, unless you drown in myriads of docs, not named and sorted, its not even doing anything mega neat without ram usage
You are creating pretty tight social graph of all the events you were invited to/took pictures at. And a facial recognition db.
A couple of decades ago that would have been some advanced intelligence agency shit.
Finally Gentoo comes into its own.
I started compiling right when chatgpt dropped, should be done any day now
Gentoo has binary packages now
I know I was just doing the bit lol
It’s probably going to be easier to just buy some piece of shit netbook as the only internet-connected device in a house that’s stripped of whatever possible on it and keep some kind of air-gapped home network of older tech at some point. Especially if hardware prices don’t come down.
Do they even make netbooks anymore that aren’t just chrome books that children use?
Honestly kind of incredibly what kind of stuff would run on those things. I played Sims 3 on a netbook with a GB of RAM.
I can’t imagine it ran well, though. Mostly because it still runs like shit on decent modern hardware. God, I love and hate that game so much.
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It was only slightly bellow the minimum requirements of the game.
I’m not sure, but ultrabooks are still there, and old ones can be worth it.
Maybe with phones that market’s diminished, but I assume there’s a market still or selling laptops that barely run the operating system with whatever Intel Atom-equivalent CPU that exists currently.
So many good reasons not to use Ubuntu. Snap, AI shit, and I would bet good money that they’ll be the first major distro to do some sort of mandatory identity verification shit.
also their moronic attempt to rewrite GNU Coreutils in rust, which is clearly just a cynical corporate-led effort to remove the GPL license from linux
ubuntu used to be the obvious thing to recommend to linux beginners but now it needs to die
They should bring back the Amazon ads
these days, there’s literally zero reason to keep using ubuntu!
imho, linux mint is still the best distro for beginners, but even plain debian will suit most people just fine.
Luckily, Mint has a variant based on plain Debian as well. The only thing I was really missing was the non-free driver management.
I would not recommend LMDE for regular users; it’s more of a proof of concept and backup plan than it is a fully supported distro.
In what ways, or for what reasons? I’ve been using it on my laptop for school and it’s been incredibly stable and problem free
Finally I can get AI integration with my distro. The future has arrived
doesn’t Deepin feature an AI assistant thing too?
Deepin is not a real thing so I’m not surprised.
really looking forward to switching to fedora! (i’m waiting because the gf is sharing the pc and we don’t have budget for a second one rn)
Fedora follows US export controls despite being a community project as well as US patent trolls.
You just gotta Debian.
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Fedora is what got me to switch in the first place and it’s about all I know!
The actual features they list don’t seem bad. Better text to speech and speech to text are good. Making it possible to install AI models via Snap is whatever (who the fuck uses Snap anyway). Making it easier for AI “agents” to read the system config is… well it doesn’t impact anyone not using AI, but it’s useful to people doing something deeply irresponsible in the first place, so I can’t say it’s neutral.
I don’t really think it’ll impact the wider ecosystem much. It’s actually kind of good to have Canonical wasting their time on this shit, instead of trying to introduce new standards that everyone has to scramble around and catch up with, again.
I’ve previously described Canonical as “not evil, just your cat that pukes on the carpet sometimes,” and we might have to upgrade them to “your uncle who’s handy, but starts saying some sus things when he’s drunk, and he’s been drinking a lot lately.” If you’re super involved in OSS then maybe it’s time to dust off LMDE and file bugs or whatever.
This is why I still run windows xp. Couldn’t run AI if it tried.
XP was the last good version of Winblows, I tell ya.
Reading their explanation, I am extremely cautiously not pessimistic. They don’t seem to be trying to sell access to gpus, they haven’t announced a partnership with an AI company (though I’m sure they will) and they are starting with accessibility features, which are sorely lacking and could be made far, far better through the use of small LLMs. They are packaging models in snaps and claiming they will come with optimizations, though we’ll see if it makes a difference.
They are also incredibly cautious to not claim you can develop with any of these AI tools, and any system administration should be done with “strict guard rails”. It seems like they are trying to almost limit the damage people setting up openclaw do to their system (or a businesses system) by implementing their own alternative. The plan they lay out comes off as a way to market to corporations while being unobtrusive enough for a regular user. If they follow the plan (IF!) I don’t think it’s terrible middle ground.
