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AkaneKurokawa ,

The only real medicine for AI nightmare, is having your own local and trained model. Like a 7B or above that. I read a lot about it, go to network chuck youtube channel, he teaches you how to set up and run your own AI based on yourself, that never shares information, it’s open-source and it runs even in a laptop.

kazerniel ,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

Switching to Linux means you might have to say goodbye to certain proprietary software and games. Applications like Adobe Creative Suite

as someone whose job mostly involves Adobe programs and whose many hobby is gaming, I think I’ll stick with a Windows with all the AI crap disabled via group policies and O&O Shutup 😐 For now…

doodledup ,

Am I the only one that can’t scroll on that shitty page? - Firefox Mobile

cy_narrator ,

Untill one day Ubuntu will start incorporating AI in GNOME search bar

How much are you willing to bet this wont happen with Canonical’s Ubuntu?

Facebones ,

AI has people questioning Windows use Car systems ratting drivers out has people questioning car use

Not the way I expected to reach some of my desired ends but I’ll take it. 🤔

plantedworld ,

What happens when I, a potential new Linux user, need to search for how to make something work on Linux and thanks to SEO and AI driven/created search results I can’t find the solution?

Ravenson ,

Well you already know how to find this place, so find a Linux-themed instance and either ask your question or better yet post a “guide” telling people to resolve your problem by doing some wrong method you’ve already tried so that someone else calls you an idiot and posts the correct answer out of spite.

xavier666 ,

how to do <objective> lemmy

GoOnASteamTrain , (edited )

I just switched over to Mint from Windows 10 a month ago, and besides from setting up my quirky USB audio for music making, I was astonished as I rarely needed to look anything up. :)

Using DuckDuckGo helped I think, but presently, most of my questions I searched came back with forums with real people talking, which was lovely.

I remember trying this in 2010 and… nope, everything was a project, command lines everywhere, and it was a pig. I was very impressed this time, everything quietly worked. :) Even every steam game I threw at it, even ruddy GTA San Andreas, which never ran for me on Window 10!

The searches/sticking points I looked up were

  • what the heck am I doing with partitions. (eventually nuked windows anyway)
  • how do I get my specific USB audio card thingy to work.*
  • how to mod fallout new vegas** (gave up and reinstalled on a windows pc, too many .exes)
  • how to auto-mount a second hard drive for steam so I don’t have to click the disk every time I boot.

*there was actually a human-made guide for my usb audio when I searched on DuckDuckGo, which was made by an utter saint of a person!

** it ran fine, but I was in the middle of a save, so wanted to keep my mod loadout :)

iopq ,

Ask on matrix, there’s probably a chat room for your distro

SO isn’t bad either, despite lots of old questions

bluewing ,

If you want to search for AI solutions to problems because forums are either too slow to answer or you get no answer at all. I’ve been using Phind for my Linux issues with Fedora, (a recent switch and I’m not all that familiar with it yet), and it’s an AI that is supposed to be aimed at programmers and Devs.

So far, for my meager needs, it’s worked VERY well. So between Phind and RTFM, I haven’t found an issue I can’t work through.

ZILtoid1991 ,

I wonder if some big AI heads will publish some “AI enhanced” Linux distros, that will also have other issues…

nickwitha_k ,

Almost definitely.

librejoe ,

I expect canonical to do it to Ubuntu.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

imagine if pop os does it first.

librejoe ,

I’d actually be surprised.

MNByChoice ,

IBM’s Watson Enhanced Red Hat

dezmd ,
@dezmd@lemmy.world avatar

I guess id be ok with an installable debian package for an end user controlled llama package with gui avatar interface overlay. Local learning data set storage plus ability to use API calls to injest info from other cloud based llm ai systems when the local dataset doesnt have a reliable answer.

PenisWenisGenius ,

There is a command line program called tesseract that does image to text generation. It produces plaintext from a picture of text. I didn’t look into exactly how it works but iirc, image to text that’s actually good and accurate needs ai shenanigans.

Doof , (edited )

I am basically a layman, i do music productions and in the past VSTs seemed to never work properly nor the authentication software that some us. Has it gotten better in the past few years, is there a specific one i should try? i have tried Ubuntu but nothing else to be fair. Also if i want to make a plex server on an old PC, what would people recommend? thanks to anyone who responds!

edit - Thanks to all that responded, i have some direction now. Appreciated!

dan , (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Also if i want to make a plex server on an old PC, what would people recommend?

Any desktop PC built in the last 10 years (edit: that was at least mid-range when it was built) should be fine. Just stick some hard drives in it :)

Intel processors are a good choice because their onboard GPU is quite good for video encoding/decoding. 6th gen or newer Intel Core processors (2015 or newer) would work well. They improved the H265 encoding/decoding a lot in 8th gen (2018) so that’d be even better. You can use something older but you’d need to also use a graphics card for video encoding/decoding, and it’d use more power.

Having said that, keep in mind that performance per watt almost always improves over time, meaning newer processors are more powerful even if they use the same power as the previous generation. A newer i3 will perform better than a very old i7. Using an very old, power-hungry system may end up more expensive in the long run compared to a newer mini PC.

I like using Proxmox. It lets you run multiple virtual machines on the system. VMs are good because you can easily snapshot them and revert back to an old snapshot in case of issues, and you can easily move the VM to a different system in the future. I use Unraid at home and really like it. It’s a bit simpler than Proxmox, but it costs money to use (Proxmox is free for personal use).

onebonestone ,

For music production check out Ubuntu Studio. Any distro can run music production stuff but Ubuntu Studio has all the required bits ready to go.

For DAW I transitioned into Reaper which runs natively on Linux. VST support with wine and yabridge works generally fine. For Native Instruments you need to use a legacy installer. I bet there are still problems with some vendor authorizations. You should just test it out to see if your favorite VSTs are supported.

nickwitha_k ,

To add to this Ardour may be worth a look for DAW. I haven’t touched it in a while but recall it being rather nice.

Barack_Embalmer ,

I used to use FL Studio, but hated using Windows. I got almost all features (including VSTs) to work in Ubuntu under Wine, but had a problem with WineASIO, which I seemed to require to use the USB sound card properly.

Because of that, I since changed to a DAW called REAPER which is built natively for Linux and works flawlessly and is very nice. There is a program called Yabridge to help run Windows VSTs. I even got more complicated plugins with authentication like Addictive Drums 2 to work using Wine no problem.

If you want a fully FOSS solution there is Ardour which is also great but a little less slick than Reaper IMO.

smallpatatas ,

+1 for yabridge.

Bitwig is a great DAW (but not FOSS unfortunately). I run that on Manjaro, although Mint or Ubuntu are probably perfectly good choices too, if I had to guess.

qx128 ,

I’d recommend checking out Linux Mint with the “cinnamon” desktop.

Installing hardware drivers and software is a breeze. It comes with a software manager for easily adding new programs.

Screenshot included for convenience:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/33492312-60f6-4981-972d-3d689fdcb88e.png

mortrek ,

I’d go for Jellyfin over Plex myself.

Facebones ,

Yeah I don’t like the idea of having to login to their site, like I’m self hosting for a reason lol

tomkatt , (edited )

Also if i want to make a plex server on an old PC, what would people recommend?

My plex server is headless, running Almalinux. Doesn’t take much, I have it running on a very old NUC8 (NUC8i5BEK). The box is also running Asset UPnP and AudioBookshelf server too.

Personally, unless the server will also be the client (as in, you’ll be watching from the server box and not a streaming box, tablet, TV app, etc), I’d skip any GUI and just install it from the terminal, save your resources for what matters. Desktop environment is pointless for a server machine.

If you were buying a cheap machine to handle it today, I’d probably recommend a Beelink (or other) mini-PC with a Ryzen 5000 series chipset (5500u/5560u models with 16GB RAM can be found very cheap, generally $215-$240 new these days). The 5000 series in particular are very power efficient for something you likely will leave on all the time, and have both 6c/12t and 8c/16t variants, though the 8 core ones will probably be more like $300-$320.

Whatever you buy, if it comes pre-installed with Windows, delete the OS. I wouldn’t trust preinstalled on these boxes, and in any case Microsoft is getting really sketchy with this whole Windows Recall thing anyway.

Fedditor385 ,

Yes, but can you play modern games on Linux the same as on Windows? Even with anti-cheat software?

capestan ,

FYI Helldivers 2 works fine on an ubuntu + AMD GPU, as well as Baldur’s Gate 3. Haven’t tested any other game yet.

Setup is trivial thanks to Steam and proton.

citrusface ,

With some anti cheat - no. You cannot. LoL, Valorant, Apex Legends - all no go for me… But for everything else I play. No issues at all - infact a lot of games run better on Pop_os than they do on Windows.

noodlejetski , (edited )

FYI, I’ve clocked over 1000 hours on Apex Legends, not a single one of them on Windows.

areweanticheatyet.com

citrusface ,

Ayyyeeee - just my experience, glad it’s working!

capestan ,

Battlebit also works fine and it uses easy anti cheat

citrusface ,

Good to know! Thank you.

squirrelwithnut ,

What about for Nvidia GPUs?

throbbing_banjo ,
@throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world avatar

Nvidia just requires a driver install on most distros, and the newer drivers for Linux run rather well. All but one of my games runs better on Linux than on Windows (MK1 has slowdown issues on cinematics)

boonhet ,

People keep saying you can’t use Nvidia GPUs with Linux or that the experience is horrible, but truth be told, if you already have one, you can keep it no problem. The main scenario where it still had issues as of last year was if you used KDE Plasma with Wayland on Nvidia (though I hear Plasma 6 improved a lot of it - not sure, because I didn’t have a lot of issues on Plasma 5 either).

Your best bet for Nvidia GPUs is an Ubuntu-based distro. Ubuntu itself is an option though not necessarily the best - they bake in some ads and a lot of people aren’t fans of being forced to use Snap, which has a proprietary backend unlike Flatpak. Personally I’d say go for Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop if you want a Windows-like desktop environment and Pop!_OS if you want something completely different altogether from Windows. On Mint or Ubuntu you can install the drivers from the provider proprietary driver installer (super simple), on Pop!_OS you can just get a Nvidia iso and have them preinstalled.

But honestly, I didn’t even have issues with Nvidia when I was on Gentoo, supposedly one of the harder distros to maintain.

Would I buy a Nvidia GPU now that I’ve completely ditched Windows? Probably not, but I’m also not in a hurry to replace my 3060 Ti just to get rid of the logo.

iopq ,

Nvidia support got better, I’m using it on NixOS with Wayland gnome and games have better FPS than last year, I’m maxing out my 280Hz 1080p monitor with older games

GoOnASteamTrain ,

My 1080 was okay with Linux Mint, no complaints, and performance is the same from what I can tell. :)

meliaesc ,

Steam Deck is extremely capable.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Some, not all. If you’re inflexible on gaming you’re going to want to get comfortable with Windows AI.

AkaneKurokawa ,

IDGAF games

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

Roblox.

xavier666 ,

Roblox devs are extremely hostile towards Linux.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

android.

sgtgig ,

As of the last few days I’ve been trying out Linux gaming for the first time, and the prospects seem really good. ProtonDB suggests all games I care about are native or run fine and I’ve tested several, and I was able to use bottles to get an old MMO I play running incredibly easy.

Only thing I really have to dual boot for is Valorant.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Kernel level anti-cheat won’t work, thank heavens the Linux developers won’t allow that abomination.

No process deserves that kind of elevated permissions.

qx128 ,

Steam is your best bet here. I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate. Previously played Civ VI a lot… lots of great choices.

Facebones ,

Start using Linux, tell those companies you’d buy but you’re on Linux, spread the word, wash, rinse, repeat.

Be the change you want to see.

iopq ,

You can, but not 100%

They have solved the anti cheat issue, but the companies now have to ship the Linux fix for it to work with Wine. So understandably some just don’t.

All my games work, but YMMV

moon ,

Yup, practically every single one. I play genshin impact on Linux completely unmodified and nothing tweaked.

This site has been objectively tracking the state of anti cheat really well: areweanticheatyet.com

So you can see that majority of the anti cheats are working. Also games that use anti cheat are really not that numerous in the first place anyways…

Stupidmanager ,

Look, Linux is amazing and perfect for those that can install and maintain with minimal support. The only way the average user will use Linux, is if it’s wrapped in a way that is supported by a business… that is probably going to add AI. People are lazy, they want that easy button.

AI will probably die off in its current iteration, likely becoming less prevalent and just a background service. Or, it’ll gain sentience, watch all our AI movies where we’re the hero and learn the most efficient way to kill all humans, is to be quiet and silently kill off humans. Pretty sure I’m on Siri’s list, the twat. Also, fairly sure I told Alexa to “die in a fire you fucking dumass robot”. Yep, yep… I’m dead.

intensely_human ,

So why don’t people have a business installing and administering linux for people?

echodot ,

They do. They are called servers.

But no one is using Linux desktop computers in a business environment because corporate IT departments don’t want to have to deal with the nightmare that is installing packages every 5 minutes.

Linux is fine if you’re into computers and like fiddling around, but if you just need the damn thing to work you don’t want to mess with Linux. It doesn’t “just work”.

Stupidmanager ,

2nd this. I just spent an hour redeploying a whole appstack for my internal customer because someone on their team decided to remove some core files in /etc. we have a zero touch policy, the guy knew it, still messed with servers and proceeded to deny he did anything… even with logs showing his actions. No way would I ever want to support desktops for the average user.

Ephera ,

I really don’t care to be the guy that’s like, oh, you criticized Linux, I’ll point out how wrong you are, but packages? If the software you want to install is packaged, then it’s easier to install than on Windows. You just open up the app store UI and click on “Install”. I also have no idea why you’d need to install packages every 5 minutes.

I’d say the most prevalent issue people have with Linux, is that they need/want specific software that only runs on Windows.

xavier666 ,

if you just need the damn thing to work you don’t want to mess with Linux. It doesn’t “just work”.

I think immutable distros for business will perfectly fit this niche.

Ephera ,

I think, there’s just too few potential customers.

Linux works excellently for techies, but those don’t need help.

It works great for the many people that just browse the internet, but Windows or their phone/tablet is also fine for that.

Well, and then there’s a chunk of people that aren’t techie enough to install an OS, which would still have an interest in an improved OS, but those will then also often use some specialty software which only runs on Windows.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think it’s a support issue at least that’s not the hard part. Native Linux apps are generally second rate if you’re lucky. The browsers are fantastic there’s maybe a couple of dozen solid production quality apps out there that working all or nearly all distros.

You can get almost anything you want to be done in Linux, but there are definitely compromises you have to make.

As long as there’s compromises are greater than the compromises you make sucking on Microsoft’s tit, Linux will still be in the shadows.

theonyltruemupf ,

For most users it probably just comes down to what is installed on their machine when they buy it. People generally don’t think about operating systems a whole lot.

vonbaronhans ,

people are lazy have busy lives and want to put their time and energy into things that aren’t learning a whole new technology skill.

FTFY.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

And forced the hardware obsolescence nightmare.

And the big tech surveillance nightmare.

And the nightmare of the war on general purpose computers. (OK, that is more GNU and GPLv3)

And a few other nightmares!

Suavevillain ,
@Suavevillain@lemmy.world avatar

Linux has been great for me. I switched during Windows 10 forced updates and never been unhappy since. I hope more people at least give a try. If you have a computer that can’t meet Windows 11 requirements, it is worth a shot.

Aceticon ,

Having recently setup a cheap Mini-PC with Linux and Kodi as a TV-Box + NAS + VPN client end, replacing both TV box of my ISP (around here Fibre Internet Access tends to be bundled with TV using a TV box from the supplier, which has become progressivelly more shit) used for live TV as well as a separate TV box I had for personal digital media, I now think that Linux is the Best Way to avoid the Enshittification Nightmare much more broadly.

Granted, for decades already I’ve very purposefully avoided using hosted services that locked me into a 3rd party (such as for example having a Google e-mail address or hosting my files “on the cloud”) which in recent times have become increasingly enshittified (as I expected: my tendency for avoiding 3rd party lock-in comes from experience as in IT professional were I saw how invariably said 3rd parties would end up shafting customers once moving out from their “solution” was very hard) and for which Linux has long been a solution, but it’s been a pleasant surprised to find out that at least for some of the modern electronics Linux is also the solution for taking back control.

Frankly I’m just waiting for some kind of decent Linux distro for my smartphone and table to ditch Android (in the meanwhile I’m using custom ROMs to somewhat control it and avoid the enshittification).

PS: On the desktop side it’s also nice that, right when MS is going fully enshittified, Linux for Gaming has become a very viable option, since gaming was pretty much the only thing keeping me on Windows at home.

thegr8goldfish ,

I’m doing something similar with KODI and. NAS currently. I’m curious to know if you set up a MySQL database to sync your watch history across devices? I have been reading up on it but since my NAS is just a portable USB HDD plugged into my router, I don’t think I can include this option.

Aceticon , (edited )

Well, my NAS before was in the same style as yours and I moved it to that Linux Mini-PC (that by then had already replaced both TV boxes) because it has much better performance as a NAS (my router could only share using SMBv1 which has less than half the speed of SMBv2 and above, and there are even benefits for Kodi that is in that same machine to access the media directly via the filesystem rather than mounted shared, both because it’s much faster doing full scans and because it will actually do proper incremental scans - i.e. only and quickly check files with creation dates newer than last scan data - when scanning my NAS for new media files.

As for shared MySQL synch, if I remember it correctly from when I read about it on the Kodi website, that’s just having that MySQL set up as a standalone database server in a place accessible by all potential Kodi client instances and then configure your Kodi clients to use that standalone database instead of the internal database of each Kodi client.

This is just a traditional client-server structure were the “server” is the standalone MySQL database and the clients are the Kodi instances: pretty run of the mill way to have a server doing something for multiple client applications if they’re all on the same network so lots of corporate software works like that.

The most obvious way of doing this is having that MySQL database on the Linux Mini-PC (even in professional settings, putting your database on a Linux machine is almost always the best choice) by installing it as a package (for example, with apt-get) and then you do have to initialize it and load it with data from an existing Kodi instance (again, if I remember it correctly, you export the data from the internal database of your Kodi instance and import it into that standalone database) and then point the Kodi instance (and any other present or future Kodi instances you want to use that shared watch history) to that standalone database. From looking at it (and given my experience with making server side software), I believe the instructions on the Kodi website for this are correct and complete even if they seem a little daunting at first.

Personally I didn’t do it because I have no need for it and hence couldn’t be arsed.

utopiah ,

I used KODI for a while but switched to “just” minidlna/ReadyMedia for a lighter setup. I know that VLC can resume videos even over DLNA so I’m wondering if it can abstracted away, e.g having a VLC script that checked, maybe based on filename, if the opening file has already been played from another location and if so, resume from there.

I see that in ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf there is a [RecentsMRL] section with list (unfortunately local only I believe) and times (in seconds I imagine). One could imagine to scp that file to the NAS using e.g inotify (after writes) then merge it (not replace) on that section only, then a shortcut that before starting VLC get the merged file and does the same. That should allow for resuming across devices.

HexesofVexes ,

Ehh, I have a different vision here - AI is useful, it’s just going down the hypermonetisation path at the moment. It’s not great because your data is being scraped and used to fuel paywalled content - that is largely why most folks object.

It’s, also, badly implemented, and is draining a lot of system resource when plugged into an OS for little more than a showy web search.

Eventually, after a suitable lag, we’ll see Linux AI as the AI we always wanted. A local, reasonable resource intense, option.

The real game changer will be a shift towards custom hardware for AIs (they’re just huge probability models with a lot of repetitive similar calculations). At the moment, we use GPUs as they’re the best option for these calculations. As the specialist hardware is developed, and gets cheaper, we’ll see more local models and thus more Linux AI goodness.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Eh, AI is over hyped imo, and I’m not particularly interested in running it at all. But local models do exist, and I hear they’re pretty decent, so Linux users can get most of what they want today.

Linux shouldn’t brand itself as anti-AI, and it really shouldn’t brand itself as anti-anything, it should brand itself as being pro-user. If you want AI, Linux can handle that, and if you don’t, Linux doesn’t force it. It’s the option for user choice. Oh, and if you don’t want choice and just want it to work, there’s a distro for that.

Brkdncr ,

“The year of Linux on the Desktop” is in the article. This again? Been reading this for decades and it’s still not true.

Linux is close, but has some core flaws that will forever keep it out of mainstream acceptance by your average user.

olutukko ,

every year is the year of linux for linux users. not so much for other people

Drummyralf ,

Maybe we should have like a yearly event for this. Like a holiday. International Linux Year Day.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I propose September 17, the day of the first Linux release.

echodot ,

I think there is some sort of conference. The key would be to convince all the Linux users to stop telling us about it the rest of the time.

Linux uses and vegans have the same “I’m better than you” energy.

havocpants ,

Linux is close, but has some core flaws that will forever keep it out of mainstream acceptance by your average user.

It has nothing to do with any flaws within Linux itself. The problem is and has always been that it’s nearly impossible to buy a PC with any flavour of Linux pre-installed. Until that changes, Linux (on home user desktops) will never gain mainstream acceptance.

Tekkip20 ,
@Tekkip20@lemmy.world avatar

Didn’t HP sell some fancy shmancy laptops that came with Ubuntu or some flavor of it? Think it was for developers but I thought that was the closest we gotten to commercially selling Linux based machines.

P.S. I could be wrong about this but I am sure this happened.

echindod ,

HP sold he DevOne, it had PopOS on it. Dell sells an XPS developer machine that has Ubuntu pre installed. System76, Entroware, and Tuxedo computers have all been selling Linux hardware for a long time. So there are viable commercial options. I wish the DevOne were going to get refreshed, it looks like a nice machine but alas, I don’t think it will.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Linux really needs to be on the floor at BestBuy on base models, just a little cheaper than the Windows models. If that’s the case, I think people will try it.

But if it’s only on one or two premium models and online only, that’s not good enough.

echindod ,

On the one hand, I think you are right, people who know can find a Linux computer if they know where to look. And they should be easier to find. On the other hand, I don’t think many people by laptops at Best Buy any more. Maybe if BestBuy had one people would try it and see, but I feel like best buy is the place you go to buy a TV or a charging chord for your phone.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

People buy things they see advertised. Being visible on the floor of BestBuy is advertisement. If it’s just an option on a website, they’re unlikely to try it, but if they see it as a “normal thing” that’s available at retailers, they might consider it.

At least that’s the assumption I’m going off of.

echindod ,

The lack of advertising is a big one, that’s for sure. And Dell isn’t spending any of their advertisement budget to brag about Linux.

Maybe that’s what canonical should spend it’s money on rather than snaps :-) (half joking…maybe )

havocpants ,

It’s possible they did. I think Dell briefly discussed it as an option, before using it as leverage to get cheaper Windows licenses from Microsoft. The EEE PC also shipped with its own Linux distro and appropriate hardware drivers.

This was why I said “nearly impossible” :)

echindod ,

You can go to the Dell website today and filter by Operating System and select Ubuntu. Through Project Sputnik, Dell has been selling laptops with Ubuntu for over a decade. It’s a pretty interesting story, but I couldn’t find a summary of it online easily.

Evil_incarnate ,

I agree. Most people won’t switch to Linux because they have never used it and think they’ll have to relearn computers from scratch.

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