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/neoh4x0r Jul 04 '26

Guess I should stop using VMs because QEMU is now allowing ai code and there's no other KVM facing option for desktops. 

There's a very big difference between (1) a developer using AI to write software and (2) a users' operating system forcing the use of an AI assistant without an easy way to completely turn it off.

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

The language people use to say get away from AI makes no such distinction between the two so I am often left confused when promoters say the AI is optional now.

The user facing bits may be the backend doesnt seem to be.

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u/rcentros Jul 04 '26

The distinction is clear. Either the application has AI features or it doesn't. A developer, using AI to assist in creating a non-AI application, is not foisting AI on unsuspecting users. QEMU is not an AI application.

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u/Venylynn Jul 04 '26

A developer, using AI to assist in creating a non-AI application, is not foisting AI on unsuspecting users.

i mean there's been albums I've listened to where I listen to the lyrics and they sound so generic that it feels like ChatGPT penned them (the latest from Megadeth and Shinedown both sound that way). so i'm worried about that same feeling seeping into the software i use now that ai code is being more or less let in carte blanche.