Post #2488316
2026-05-13 14:26 UTC
@eldersea@expressional.social @Canageek@wandering.shop it depends on how you define anti-AI. Gentoo is the only distro that I know of that has been vocal about their anti-AI stance. Arch has yet to set a policy, but I would be very surprised if they were accepting. Debian has said they are going to wait for things to settle down before making a decision, which is very Debian of them.
NetBSD (not a Linux distro I know) has made firm statrments against AI, and don't allow AI code. FreeBSD has used it for documentation, or at least translation of documentation; it did not go well. OpenBSD has fallen completely to the AI Cult apparently, which is an absolute affront to what they used to stand for. OpenBSD is dead to me.
It's probably better, though, to point out distros that have either fully embraced AI or tout their usefulness in AI, or are bragging about upcoming AI-oriented features. That would include Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
So right now, I'd say use Gentoo, Arch, or Debian for Linux, or NetBSD if you want to be 100% sure.
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@eldersea@expressional.social 2026-05-13 14:33
@cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza @Canageek@wandering.shop Thank you. I am on Fedora KDE at the moment, and I suspect KDE is really the bigger driver of what I want on a day-to-day basis. Are any of the others you mentioned well-integrated with KDE?
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@eschwartz@fosstodon.org 2026-05-14 00:51
@cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza @eldersea@expressional.social @Canageek@wandering.shop Is Debian "waiting for things to settle down" before proposing to go beg LLM vendors to sponsor "free LLM credits for Debian developers"? https://bits.debian.org/2025/07/bits-from-the-dpl-june.html