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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com)
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[+] -18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yep. Just like how nobody uses Windows since Linux is easily accessible.

Wait

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's not the average consumer spending thousands on tokens. Even my work just had a meeting about how "the free lunch is over" now that AI costs are expanding, and they bought their own hardware to investigate hosting local models.

    Linux is widely used in the enterprise world. It's the home consumer world that doesn't use it as much and even that is rapidly changing as things enshitify.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    they bought their own hardware to investigate hosting local models.

    That's going to be incredibly hard to make economical I bet, unless you have the ability to basically max out the utilization of the hardware around the clock.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Having an option vs not having an option

    Also Linux and Windows are pretty different in use cases and capabilities. Meanwhile, local AI models have a very similar user experience. If hardware was cheaper and people could run better LLMs locally, they wouldn't pay monthly for it.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You're right, the general public doesn't use Linux due to the lack of ability to browse the web and file their taxes—Windows exclusive functionality.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    In the workplace, there are still a lot of domain specific programs that don't have Linux support. Companies don't have much of an incentive to port that stuff over. As for the people who just need a web browser, they probably would use Linux just fine if they could buy a computer at BestBuy that comes with Linux preinstalled

    Compare that to LLM programs, where it's a matter of "download this app instead of that one, because this one is free and that one costs $25 a month"

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