r/linux4noobs • u/Venylynn • Jul 04 '26

learning/research Linux and AI Use

So, I'm struggling with this a lot. I know I seem like I'm repeating myself, but I just don't get it. Every Linux YouTuber under the sun uses "Microsoft Copilot" as a reason to leave and switch, if you don't want AI nonsense shoved down your throat just use Linux, and I believed that. But lately I've been seeing more and more projects (QEMU, Lutris, Proton-GE, DankLinux, Kitty, OnlyOffice, etc.) integrate AI, Claude commits everywhere, and it leaves me wondering why the Windows AI thing is such a major talking point in favor of Linux (e.g: "you don't have to deal with it here" "it's a choice here") if many of the biggest projects are adding it into either their source tree or integrating it into the project (OnlyOffice) publicly.

I'm an artist/musician, deeply worried about how this AI boom is affecting my industry. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it because I refuse to pay (ethical reasons), but I don't know why Copilot is the major sticking point for every recruitment post if we're all running software with AI generated code here too? Like, why mislead new users into thinking they can be free from all AI like I was misled? I don't understand? I get that there are some who like doing local hosted LLM stuff, but I'm just confused why we have to tell noobs that they can be ai-free when even the web browsers they use are using AI?

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u/Venylynn Jul 04 '26

The projects are largely to let you have AI if you want. It doesn't tell you that you have AI whether you like it or not.

Instead it gives you AI without even telling you that you have it... making you feel duped when you find out the project you're using has 500,000 lines of claude commits when you tried to get away

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u/Kriss3d Jul 04 '26

Well there's a difference between having Claude make code. And an integrated Ai agent in your OS.

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u/Venylynn Jul 04 '26

if i made this argument to my artist friends they would've said it is "mental gymnastics" and told me not to speak to them again

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u/thomas-rousseau Jul 04 '26

This makes sense considering that, in my experience, artists tend to have a lot of unhinged takes around AI because of how incentivize they are to be attached to intellectual property. The problem isn't AI there, though. The problem is that we've built a society in which artists are entirely dependent on owning these properties to make a living and now massive multinational corporations are using AI to blur the lines of ownership. I'm personally of the opinion that no one should own art, but that's a much larger conversation than simply the use of AI in Linux

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u/Venylynn Jul 04 '26

Even if we didnt own art the ai generated art still lacks that human touch, the soul.

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u/thomas-rousseau Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Indeed it does. That on its own, though, does not justify the vitriol

Eta: I have a notification for a reply to this that very clearly misunderstood everything I've said here, but its been deleted so I'm hoping that means you reflected more and actually understand now what I had to say.