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Now that Debian is embracing AI anyone have any anti-AI distro recommendations? (feddit.online)
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Been a long time Debian user but with the recent AI decision I am planning on moving on so anyone have an anti-AI recommendations? I understand its being used in the kernel as well but are there any distros taking a full anti-AI approach to the parts of the code they control?

Since folks seem a little confused on what I am referring to here is the mailing list page regarding the use of gen ai without disclosure vote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

Phoronix article on it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use

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[–] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Maybe this is the push you need to . . . Yes, maybe it’s time for . . . FreeBSD.

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    I've been meaning to revisit FreeBSD for a while, I just haven't gotten around to it.

    I used FreeBSD extensively from versi9n 3.3 to 5something and barely touched linux back then. Only reason why I moved to linux was the larger community.

    Then suddenly Linux became a good desktop OS without much hazzle at all, so it replaced both desktop and server-side use for me.

    How is FreeBSD as a desktop OS these days? I vaguely remember compiling xfree86 from /usr/ports some 25 years ago, and dicking around with monitor sync rates to get Gnome to display properly.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    FreeBSD has been slop for a while, the only slopfree BSD remaining is NetBSD, but that's probably not practical to actually use.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    In purely utilitarian terms, are there any interesting differences in using freebsd or other bsds instead of linux?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    Well, back in the day the guy who was really into it would bug out his eyes at you and go “Oh YES! There’s . . . “ and he’d immediately list two or three huge differences and then downshift to a bunch of reasons why that’s better™ and then you’d go home and not remember a single one very well.

    These days I don’t really know. Is there a little red devil in the house?

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