cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/76421889
Linux doesn’t deserve this
Imagine taking the lightweight, privacy-focused appeal of Linux and completely ruining it by hardwiring AI models straight into the OS. Nobody is switching from Windows for more forced AI features.
Obviously the sarcasm is coming through as intended but it betrays a strange notion of a common attitude towards computers amongst all people as a whole. For it to read as sarcasm one has to accept the premise that people like using computers generally, or if they don’t, they don’t use them. This would make an operating system for people who hate using computers a redundant and laughable concept. Except, a lot of people have no particular love for computers and use them because they’re mandatory aspect of everyday life, so a system that genuinely did market itself as for ‘people who hate using their own computer’ would probably be very appealing which would rather undermine the whole implied message of this post.
Whether such an OS would deliver the goods here an actually work well and reduce friction for users and not catastrophically break or be so inefficient it becomes useless is another matter.
ah, finally, a sloperating system.
The average user just wants their computer to “work,” whatever that means to them. They’re are as complacent as ever, especially with more “choices.”
Tech savvy will avoid this, disapprove of this because … as OP puts it.
I think we will have bonzi buddy soonish on Linux desktop lol
Finally, an operating system for people who hate actually using their own computer.
Are they gonna be able to fight Apple in their home turf like this?
privacy-focused appeal of Linux
Linux isn’t inherently privacy-focused. It’s focused on interoperability and customizability.
You could use it as a foundation for a distro that watches its users even more efficiently than Windows or MacOS. You might even call it ChromeOS or Android or something.
Anyone remember Microsoft “Bob?”
I’m so confused what functionality they’re actually hoping to gain from this.
It can now delete all your data without your consent twice as effeciently.
Gather users’ personal information more efficiently?
Hating to actually use one’s own computer is a pretty common position among people who don’t post to Linux forums.
Windows users: literally begging MS to stop putting AI everywhere
This company: guys aren’t you tired of all the lack of AI in Windows?
It’s important to note that not all Windows users have the same opinion. There are a lot of people who like and want to use more Ai. I guess this company is for them, not for those who hate the OS level of integration of Ai.
The people
We want AI to automate shitty tasks like finding obscure files, grammar checking, generating 1 time use charts/reports, and translating mails.
AI and Software companies
we can give you AI that barely works at all for the asked tasks with tons of mistakes, but spies on your every move and reports it to your power tripping boss, your insurance company, your social credit score, financial institutions, and techno fascists.
What’s this, Nuance?!
Sir, I will have you know this is a Lemmy server. We don’t do that here.
Now get your pitchfork and rabble!
It looks more some sort of “ponderation”, which is in disuse from the Internet since 2014, maybe 2013.
My question is why in the world would I want a banner showing up with an ad or headline of a upcoming news title… or my desktop telling me a full background wallpaper ad…
Doesn’t Omarchy already do this?
No. KORA’s secret sauce is an Orchestrator called Cortex that uses LLMs and resources that are local to machine AND NETWORK before sending work to the cloud.
Hm, never used Omarchy, but I thought there were ways to setup local LLM too in place of the online services. So in KORA’s case its a hybrid then.
Close. KORA with Cortex is local first by default where “local” can be an on-machine LLM and / or ones that located on the same local network. So it’s Hybrid with local first and the added party trick that you can tap an LLM on another machine that is also running Cortex.
Oh so you mean Omarchy?
No. Lookup KORA and Cortex, very different than Omarchy.
KORA with Cortex is local first by default where “local” can be an on-machine LLM and / or ones that located on the same local network. So it’s Hybrid with local first and the added party trick that you can tap an LLM on another machine that is also running Cortex.
I mean sure, let’s see what they build, but its against what most Linux users want…
Still, since it’s probably free to try, let’s see.
And they’ll probably lose interest after the first version is shipped
Nha, it’s the developer’s grand vision. It will instead take one month of patches until Claude becomes unable to understand what it wrote and spend the entire Pro subscription to add one line
Or, more likely when “master slave” and similar terms get overused the internal safetytrigger blocks the entire chat
Sooo this? vibeOS, 100% hallucinated!
Omarchy
Lol strong contender for that title
Arguably even worse. The kernel is Linux (99% human made), the desktop is probably based on something existing (probably 50% human made), but you can’t actually do anything. AI is integrated into everything. Think Windows but worse, somehow. Probably with less telemetry, at least! If the LLM is on-device, which it probably isn’t. It’s probably connected straight to ChatGPT APIs
This is funny to me because I highly doubt the LLM runs locally, which means the OS
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This is funny to me because I highly doubt the LLM runs locally
Exact opposite. KORA with Cortex is local first by default where “local” can be an on-machine LLM and / or ones that located on the same local network. So it’s Hybrid with local first and the added party trick that you can tap an LLM on another machine that is also running Cortex.
If it has local LLMs and other models it is gonna have gigantic minimum requirements.
Damn, the antithesis to Hanna Montana OS.
You get the worst, of both worlds
The kernel is Linux (99% human made)
At the current state, I would say its way more than 99% human made. Probably like 99.99% human made, and the 0.01% generated by Ai is checked by the Linux experts, so no slop comes through.
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