Just as long as it is local AI and optional. If I’m gonna have to connect my Ubuntu devices to some datacenter just for slop I didn’t ask for, I’m switching again
I’ll second what /u/unexposedhazard said. Switch anyway. I kept Ubuntu for a long time because I thought it was the easy option… Changed to Debian at the beginning of the year and my god its so much better and not at all more difficult than Ubuntu.
Linux Mint may be for you. It’s literally Ubuntu stripped of Canonical’s crap, and I expect they’ll make the AI stuff something you have to explicitly install if you want it. They already did that with Snaps, for example.
Just as long as it is local AI and optional. If I’m gonna have to connect my Ubuntu devices to some datacenter just for slop I didn’t ask for, I’m switching again
You should switch anyways. Ubuntu is corpo slop pushing closed source software components.
I’ll second what /u/unexposedhazard said. Switch anyway. I kept Ubuntu for a long time because I thought it was the easy option… Changed to Debian at the beginning of the year and my god its so much better and not at all more difficult than Ubuntu.
Just jump ship already before it fully sinks.
Linux Mint may be for you. It’s literally Ubuntu stripped of Canonical’s crap, and I expect they’ll make the AI stuff something you have to explicitly install if you want it. They already did that with Snaps, for example.
Actually my daily driver is Mint Cinnamon. I just use ubuntu for random other ones