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Sounds actually reasonable. As long as it doesn’t get shoved down the users throat it could turn out fine. And sifting through logs is in fact a good task for LLMs in my opinion.
Ubuntu doesn't have a great track record in that regard.
This is a carefully crafted press release. But canonical has been looking for a business model for a long time. I wonder if this won't turn out like windows 11 (buy copilot buy copilot buy copilot everywhere)
But yea if they do what they say here it's not bad.
The key is how they introduce it. How many Ubuntu users (who are usually novice in Linux) read through an update notice? I'm guilty of just scanning through it. A vaguely named new thing isn't going to be unchecked.
I like Ubuntu's "feel" vs. others. I can't explain what that is, just know I test ran a few before I settled on it. I'm slowly weaning off Snap though, mainly because I've had many things be so out of date it made sense to go Flakpak or just find a .deb file. And Snap is obviously bloat if you watch what's using CPU and mem regularly.
I've also used some LLMs to diagnose computer issues, so I can see how a local version that walks through such thing would be helpful.
I'll give them rope, and I can always bounce to Mint if it gets too in my face.
Don't be so sure of that. I used to use Gentoo 20 years ago. I use Kubuntu today. Why? Because I don't care anymore and just want something that works with minimal effort.
The last time I reinstalled my OS, about a year ago, it was because I replaced the SSD. The time before that was seven(?) years earlier, when I built the system in the first place.
Snaps mildly annoy me though, so I might change. Eventually, after probably several more years.
I bet there are more people like me (long-time users picking boring, "basic" distros) than you think. We just aren't usually very conspicuous compared to the "I use Arch BTW" crowd who are new enough that they still feel the need to make distro choice part of their identity.
The one thing I don’t mind an LLM doing is sifting through logs and metrics to find patterns and flag anomalies.
Yes. Like most things, genAI is not evil. It is now it is used (or made available) that makes it evil.
I'm on board with making it easy to use and integrate GenAI as long as I have full control of which model I use and how it is used and there are no behind the curtain shenanigans.
All of these things should be optional, not installed by default.