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While I definitely prefer that the distribution have no AI code, most important for me is that the OS not have mandatory AI integration. I don't want my boxes to EVER reach out to some LLM datacenter.
If you want no AI integration, I would reccomend debian or arch. Mainly because you can choose exactly what packages are installed and they have a large community.
I'm experimenting with Debian now.
I'm happy with Debian, yes.
You may be interested in the deliberations Debian has had earlier this year on exactly what should be permitted or banned with regard to contributions generated by bots.
Thats what I run on my laptop, its great. The main thibg with debian is that the packages are old, (6 months~) but very stable. I would reccomend using the testing version for newer packages. I am not saying debian 13 is bad tho, its what I run.
Add Void Linux to that list.
For the 3 people that use void linux, sure.
Nonsense. There are at least half a dozen of us! I missed the large community part.
No mainstream distro afaik have mandatory AI. This isn't windows
AFAIK integration is an option and something you have to install to get in sny case, that and ai datacenters cost money to use, something linuxes don't have.
Arch is cool. CachyOS is built on Arch and it's okay, for now, but the CachyOS devs certainly don't oppose AI afaik.
Ubuntu has no mandatory AI integration, what are you on about?
Theyโre all opt in, for now.
What happened to the term "mandatory"?
It's getting installed with the OS, sounds pretty mandatory to me.
Is this the year of the NetBSD desktop???
/s
If you are ok with Ubuntu in general, excluding the AI part, go upstream and get Debian. It's primarily mandate is stability which, to me at least, means no AI integration from the standard install.
Hop on Arch.
See the other comment about the kernel, but that aside you could go down the https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ route
https://secureblue.dev/contributing#ai-content
In the interest of accuracy, quality, and license of the project, contributing using AI generated code and content of any kind is forbidden.
I feel that and I hope we get there one day, but for now it might be better to stick with a distro that has a proven track record of good maintainers properly reviewing code. You're searching for a daily driver for your machine, right? Or is it a more specialized use case?
Not exactly a daily driver. more a display machine hooked up to a TV used to monitor some sources.
Simply saying โNo AIโ would forbid a huge amount of code that was written with assistive technologies that long precede the latest crop of proprietary LLMs; I'd venture it would cover almost all software in distributions for the past several decades.
โAIโ is a marketing term, in continuous use from the mid-twentieth century to encompass a broad and ever-changing range of automation and other tools, that is deliberately vague. If we want to be clear what the ban does and does not cover, we need to avoid that term.
And then of course we can deliberate on exactly what is permitted (code that was auto-corrected by a spell checker? code that had its boilerplate syntax automatically generated?) versus what is forbidden (code that was generated in some proprietary data centre? code that is an unattributable, non-consensual remix of existing code? code that was probabilistically extruded from an LLM?), because we'll avoid the useless term โAIโ and instead speak of specific tools and technologies.
No linux distro advertises as "AI-free" because that's a bit like saying a burger is uranium-free
I think Artix is against AI. I'd have to double-check that.
I can make one for you, won't have any mistakes, just give me few hours
Debian? Fedora? Bazzite?
If it ever got to the point that all distros had in-your-face-AI I'll turn my Pixel/GrapheneOS phone into a "desktop" computer. Just have to connect a hub, monitor, keyboard and mouse and take advantage of the pass-through charging.