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Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI (lemmy.world)
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I've had several occasions in my life where I've tried to switch to Linux only to run into hardware incompatibilities that would have taken me man-months to solve. Thanks to GPT my primary personal PC, home media and project server is now running Linux and fully functional. I've got Jellyfin, NextCloud, Navidrome and Joplin all happy. I've also been able to wipe an obsolete MacOS off my 2017-era Macbook Pro and it's happily running Mint.

There's a deep irony in Windows being enshittified by AI, while the same AI makes Linux about a billion times more usable. Now I have a leftover Windows micro-PC running a local LLM model, so I can be less dependent on GPT, as long as time isn't a factor...

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[–] 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I have used AI a little for Linux adaptation but I do want to caution overuse since it'll sometimes give you really bad advice, like regarding important dependencies and such. Sometimes it cites info for a wrong distro or outdated info, so it's not so much made up BS, just bad search results essentially.

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    Drop chats, use a harness. Include somewhere the procedure instructions to always look up documentation before crafting the command. Add instructions somewhere what dependencies you tolerate. Then it's really good.

    Once your tasks get larger, you need additional checks.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    The problem tends to be it defaults to the old fashion way of doing thing. Since most training data is that old fashion approach

    If you just remember to prompt it to keep things simple or ask it for the easier way after the first step it reduces that problem to effectively zero.

    It's no different then asking some greybeard how to do something then bitching that it's too complicated.

    They always default to "their way"

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