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

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.

Use Debian. Debian has been committed to protecting the freedom of its users since inception.

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.

Finally I can get AI integration with my distro. The future has arrived

doesn't Deepin feature an AI assistant thing too?

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.

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)

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.

Please, just focus on getting Linux working on ARM

This is why I still run windows xp. Couldn't run AI if it tried.