Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.

An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.

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[–] 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I think it is good to have optional support for local models that lets people use them in an offline and private and easy way. There is a lot of non technical folks using linux nowadays and many chose it for privacy and greater control over their data.

Depending on the implementation it could hook into certain os contexts and events to actually be helpful.

Either way I don't see the cat going back in the bag with regards to LLMs. That being said I run Debian everywhere except my work machine which is ubuntu.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Using an llm mondel that isn't super advanced is actually quite freeing in my opinion, the generated output is always mediocre at best, but it's usually good enough for boilerplate and can be decent if you need to unstuck yourself. It also isn't good enough to lull you into just letting the llm do all the work for you since it makes obvious mistakes.

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