Furores are fermenting in the forums

Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.

An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.

  • SlicedPotato@feddit.dkEnglish
    511·
    2 months ago

    Soooo, which distro to switch to next? Or are they all gonna go down this route eventually? Maybe I’ll try a *BSD for once.

    • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I switched from Kubuntu to CachyOS last week, after 10 years or so. CachyOS is based on Arch, and did not disappoint so far, extremely fast, makes Ubuntu look old and sluggish. It’s really impressive. The basic installation was easy. The GUI package manager isn’t as polished but works. A little bit of terminal tweaking was required to install some packages (VMM and KRDC gave me some trouble) but the documentation was ok. Absolutely can recommend.

      • ag10n@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Cachy is a nice mix of latest and stable. Still recommend Debian for work, but Cachy is great if you want something that just works

        • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I’ve used PikaOS which is Debian based and IMHO it’s right up there with CachyOS. super fast install, fast distro, great package manager, and repos with the latest stuff. very stable too.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        Debian or anything based directly on it

        Debian can also run AI models. Pretty dumb reason to get mad about.

        • yessikg@fedia.io
          111·
          2 months ago

          Every linux distro can run AI models, there is 0 reason to support distros that ship with AI bullshit by default

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            It’s not by default there. It’s a dedicated spin to self host an LLM. That’s completely different from Windows does with Copilot.

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      pretty much anything that is “you build it youself” so Arch, NixOS, Gentoo, etc

      but yeah I’m also tempted to finally give BSD a go.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            LLMs are useful to only a subset of users, so including it in general distribution is waste, because many people will end up with this software that was downloaded, installed, and maintained by someone, but they never use at all.

            That’s absolutely untrue in this case.

            If you read the article (the headline text is a link to an article) you would see that they specifically address this:

            -AI tools will not be added to Fedora’s existing system images, Editions, etc, by the AI Desktop initiative.

            It won’t be included in the general distribution. They’re talking about a new system image that someone would have to choose to install.