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Imagine taking the lightweight, privacy-focused appeal of Linux and completely ruining it by hardwiring AI models straight into the OS. Nobody is switching from Windows for more forced AI features.
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Hey! I’ve seen this before! Good to know that they have ported it to Linux, this really is the future (/s)
Oh I see where he’s going with this.
“There’s no buttons, there’s no [programming logic], … it’s just producing UI with nothing behind it…”
I did not see where he was going with this.
As a Linux user, we might not, but most projects do. It’s actually hard to find a project that has a strong rejection of the plagiarism machines. I’ve been trying to rebuild my workflow without commits from them, and I’ve had to jump to a BSD and start using wip source builds and send compatibility patches for other things (luckily, I’m a developer, too). And, EVEN THEN there are some generative AI code that I haven’t been able to excise – getting an “AI”-free C compiler means using a fork from an old version.
It all makes me sad. I’ve written code for fun since I was in kindergarden; I don’t want to stop using computers, but FUCK all this unavoidable “AI” getting everywhere.
It’s in the compiler ಠ_ಠ
As someone with a little programming knowledge there’s something that’s bothered me for a long time:
Why is nothing ever done? How is there still something to add to a C compiler in 2026?Why is nothing ever done? How is there still something to add to a C compiler in 2026?
The C standard is routinely updated. Both of the compilers support multiple languages, which are also receiving new versions. Finally, even if the language was unambiguously defined and never changed, new in-compiler optimization strategies are still being discovered and implemented.
Also, every compiler I’ve ever used for every language I’ve ever used includes at least some features that are not part of the language standard/specification (if it exists), and those pieces are also refined, sometimes even with the goal of getting them into a later version of the language.
That said, if the code you are compiling was really C2010 conforming, it will almost certainly work in a compiler fork from more than a decade ago. Unfortunately, most projects and developers either don’t care to or don’t know how to keep their source code strictly conforming.
Well, hardware keeps updating. A compiler turns human written code into machine instructions. And as the machine keeps changing, so do the ways to run instructions on them.
Good luck with it. I’ll be avoiding it the same way I avoided “smart” refrigerators.
Like AI or not, Linux has a distinct advantage over Windows as an Ai first style operating system. In Linux almost everything can be done through the terminal, making it much easier to be used with AI.
Making Windows an Ai operating system means partially that the Ai has to take screenshots and directly control the mouse, very ineffective.
Interesting twist if nothing else.
Why would models have to be part of the OS? Makes no sense. Make it packages people can install. That’s how software has worked for decades, and it’s a pretty good model
Why does that look like a modernized “Microsoft BOB”?
Someone is hoping to cash in on stupid AI hype. This won’t exist in two years, either because it failed or never happened.
So like 7 PCs assembled by the same QA guy probably.
Tell that to the kernel’s
BDFL.Sorry, not into leather
what happend to B ?
-is it like marking over the letter with a line or something ? let me check
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The appeal to Linux is you can do whatever the fuck you want with it.
That means some people will use it to do something stupid with, you can’t stop them and nor should you.
They’re doing the Windows dick-copter with Linux.
Yeah and when your girlfriend slides the strap-on on, she does a little twirl with it as well.
It’s like testing the tongs before you use them.
Tech-bros gonna tech-bro. Go on Kickstarter and see all the random shit, “With AI!” It is fucking pathetic.
and then you see the 10000% funded… ffs, not everything needs AI …
So they hope RAM prices will come down enough to have people afford the machine needed for it on release…
Challenge windows? By also shooting yourself in the foot with the same gun?
tiktok style shoot your own foot challenge
Isn’t that what Omarchy was already doing?
Another criticism levied against the project is that it does not meaningfully build upon its base Linux distribution, as it consists mostly of configuration for existing open source software.
From the wikipedia page. I didn’t see anything about AI, just a lot of donations from CEOs and some horrible opinions about immigrants.
Forrest Knight made a video about it. From my understanding the appeal is that you can introduce new features, fix bugs and customize the operating system with the agent(s).
Call me what you want, but the idea of a Linux distribution where you can modify config files using natural language like “make my taskbar 25% bigger and map meta+E to a new yazi window in terminal” without having to rummage in /etc for config files or hunt a specific command syntax sounds like something that would help both the seasonned sysadmins and newbies make the most of their distributions.
Sure, a mistake could take you to grub rescue, but we could easily build guardrails around this, and I was already doing it to myself without the help of AI, so…
You can do that with any Linux distro if you install AI tools
Yes but Omarchy fails so completely on every conceivable level that it doesn’t actually fill a market niche
That hasn’t stopped it getting more dollars per unit time since it started existing than any other FOSS project in history though
TBF, Omarchy is also run and funded by raving rightwingers. Until further notice, I’m not going to assume out of the gate that this project is too (but fascists do love slop).
