It's over, Ubuntu is going the route too now, which distro is next?https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-04-is-os-for-ai-agentic-era-says-canonical-mark-shuttleworth-why/
>>108970280Cool and all but does this fix Linux & Ubuntu's long papercut issue?
>>108970294what do you mean with that? I don't understand it with the papercut issue
>>108970280>starts with snapsWhy are they STILL pushing for this shit? Don't they realise nobody fucking likes snaps? Flatpaks won, what the fuck is the point of snaps anymore?
>>108970280All distros are next. The enemy is everywhere. He sees everything.
>>108970327>what do you mean with that? I don't understand it with the papercut issueThe Linux desktop sucks gnome sucks, KDE sucks, mate sucks, xfce sucks...All DEs suck.Hopefully they will just vibe up unity 9.
>>108970356Why are you using a DE at all
>>108970356>xfce suckserm what r u trans?
This is complete gobbledygook that makes no sense.>AI means release get cut faster! (no it doesn't)>faster releases mean you need snaps! (no they don't)His other argument is essentially "Ubuntu has containerization", which yes it does, but so does every other distribution.
>>108970396>Why are you using a DE at allYou are making a good point I thought Linux distros could be used on the desktop but I am wrong, I should have known better linux is only for servers.
>>108970396not him but I love my GNOME + Arch machine, runs perfectly fine for 8+ years now
did anyone in this thread even read the articlehow did you all get instantly baited into brand warring at the very first post
>>108970434>how did you all get instantly baited into brand warring at the very first postI didn't want to start a distro war etc. sorry if it sounded like this. I was just a little bit mad that even Linux/Distros are starting with the agentic OS bullshit like the bigger players do.
>>108970471The only good distro now is Void.
>>108970471that's fair enough. i can see how your post itself is not too off topic.it's more just g in general. these lot will take any excuse to rehash the same old shit for the 100th time.anyway, have a look at the article if you don't like the agentic os stuff. it's got heaps of ammo. utterly retarded shit for people who don't know a thing about computers and the microsoft stakeholders who were probably 50% of the audience for this talk.
>Both Shuttleworth and Seager ended by promising to keep Ubuntu's historic promise alive, shipping "precisely the same bits" to hedge-fund quants and kids in the suburbs of Kolkata, in a world where AI usage is metered in expensive tokens. Shuttleworth warned that tying productivity and even basic understanding of code to proprietary, cloud-hosted models risks locking out the "poorest members of our digital society" unless open-weight models and open tooling remain a primary focus.>Beyond accessibility, Seager teased "new ways of interacting with your machine" that lean on Ubuntu's existing confinement story: In an agentic desktop, each tool an agent can call would be packaged as its own confined snap, giving fine-grained control over what the agent can do on the user's behalf. He promised something concrete to "play with in the next six months," describing it as a way for non-experts to obtain "20 years of Linux desktop hacker" capability via agents, without needing the hacker background themselves./g/entleman are you ready for kids in the suburbs of Kolkata to obtain 20 years of Linux desktop hacker capability?The poorest members of our digital society don't need the hacker background themselves.
>>108970280Any distro that does not put the free software movement first will eventually be tipped towards trend-chasing the latest repressive technologies.
>>108970342They realize it and they don't care. All technology now is about forcing all users into walled gardens at gunpoint. They will push snaps or Ubuntu will die, there is no alternative
>>108970404>His other argument is essentially "Ubuntu has containerization",So why would anyone use snaps instead of flatpaks or appimages>in b4 "stop being antisemitic"
>>108970611I personally want more turd worlders to flood the internet with fake hackerman knowledge gifted to them by AI models exclusively trained from stackexchange and reddit. They can SAAAAARS with the best of us.
>>108970719Good point, anon. I think the gibberish they're spouting speaks for itself.
>>108970280First Rust, now this, i think you can safely assume they'll just keep hopping on the current trend then get burned by their own incompetence for it.
>>108970788definitely and I can't wait to see it
>>108970611>/g/entleman are you ready for kids in the suburbs of Kolkata to obtain 20 years of Linux desktop hacker capability?I'd think that having food and running water are more pressing issues than running AI agents, but I'm not a billionaire so maybe my priorities are skewed.
>>108970280The Bald Fraud era begins.
>>108970356So don't use one. Is there anything a DE can do that a WM alone can't? DEs are a convenience, not a necessity.
>>108970788There's actually a nice little Rust related tidbit in the article too.Time configuration on Linux is just so complicated, right? My NTP sync is ALWAYS getting hacked due to memory safety issues too. Always.
>>108970280debian and devuan don't have this problem
>>108970356>Hopefully they will just vibe up unity 9.unity has been renamed to lomiri and they also rewrote the whole thing in qt, just like how lxde became lxqt
>>108971184They might not have this problem today, but it may become a problem tomorrow, when agentic features creep into the non-free repositories.
>>108970280>instead of expanding capabilities, the push is to lose the capability to do anything and to become dependent on technology that will soon be obsoletedTower Of Babel.
>>108970280Holy FUCK he aged
>>108970280Imagine using a desktop distro. Imagine using troonix on anything but servers.
