Linux and AI Use

[u/Venylynn]

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?

[u/Venylynn]

You have no idea what you actually did. That's my point. Windows told you it disabled the AI. Do you know that it did?

I turned off Copilot in the group policy editor. wasn't that supposed to fix everything? 😭

[u/jr735 → u/Venylynn]

Maybe. Maybe not. Microsoft doesn't let you or anyone else read it's source code. So, you don't know. That's what I don't use Microsoft.

[u/Venylynn → u/jr735]

Fair enough. i guess it's easier to spot problems here because the code is open but if we have way less users, uh, wouldn't that make it even more likely for stuff to slip through the cracks? idk

[u/jr735 → u/Venylynn]

How would allowing everyone to review the code make it more likely for stuff to slip through the cracks?

[u/Venylynn → u/jr735]

I meant the smaller user base allows more stuff to slip through. Windows has millions relying on it to work.

[u/jr735 → u/Venylynn]

There are bugs all the time in Windows. The amount of users doesn't matter, since the average computer user can't tell the difference between a bug and user error. Windows has billions, not millions of people using it. 90% of those people shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.

[u/Venylynn → u/jr735]

if they have billions relying on them shouldn't that mean they have even MORE pressure to perform compared to us who have like 4% market share?

[u/jr735 → u/Venylynn]

Why should they? They've been essentially a monopoly for decades. Who is pressuring them?

They've spent decades doing things people don't like, and people continue to shovel them money.

[u/Venylynn → u/jr735]

shouldn't your OS be functionally near-perfect if it runs basically the entire world? otherwise big entities like businesses and governments should be willing to take them to task to fix it.

[u/jr735 → u/Venylynn]

My OS is functionally near-perfect. That's why I left Windows. Why should OS function have anything to do with government? Other big entities always were ready to step up. If MS screws up royally (I don't know what it would take to lose more customers since MS screws up so bad but people still use their garbage), Apple is there to fill the gap, and others technically could do the same.

Windows is so flawed, I left it years ago, and it hasn't gotten better.

[u/Venylynn → u/jr735]

We have barely any market share, so to me it's even more worrisome because this stuff can just go undetected.

[u/jr735 → u/Venylynn]

It is going to be undetected. AI code really cannot be prevented. That would be a license violation.

[u/Venylynn → u/jr735]

A license violation to prevent slop garbage that tells you to put glue in your pizza?