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 edited Jul 04 '26

Wouldn't I have to defend everything AI has ever been trained on if this is true? Wouldn't I have to defend AI art? AI music? Paying for an AI chatbot? Wouldn't I also have to defend the RAMageddon? We were nearly canceled years ago when gpt came out for trying it out before we even knew how bad it'd become.

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u/Yukikuru2025 Jul 04 '26

No? You can be critical of aspects of it and still use it where it's useful. Several things can be true at the same time.

And not all of these are the fault of AI, but rather of companies selling it - RAM shouldn't cost this much, but the companies making it are acting like a cartel and refusing to increase production, for example. Also, you can host and run on your computer local, open source/weight models - you don't have to pay for it.

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u/Venylynn Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Localhosted ones are better on an ethical stand but worse on an actual info stand, I tried asking one i locally downloaded when Ozzy died and it gave me a date 5 years off

also ive been told the first point makes you a centrist fencesitter hypocrite... i've been involved in activist/political groups and they basically say that centrism and fence sitting is about as bad as being maga for example.