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Now that Debian is embracing AI anyone have any anti-AI distro recommendations? (feddit.online)

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Been a long time Debian user but with the recent AI decision I am planning on moving on so anyone have an anti-AI recommendations? I understand its being used in the kernel as well but are there any distros taking a full anti-AI approach to the parts of the code they control?

Since folks seem a little confused on what I am referring to here is the mailing list page regarding the use of gen ai without disclosure vote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

Phoronix article on it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use

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[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In purely utilitarian terms, are there any interesting differences in using freebsd or other bsds instead of linux?

[–] provectus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

NetBSD is more portable than Linux and supports a lot of CPU architectures. OpenBSD is secure by default. I think the BSD'S have jails, which are better containers, but I do not know much about it.

For desktop daily use, it only matters if you really want that Unix taste.

[–] morto@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Well, back in the day the guy who was really into it would bug out his eyes at you and go “Oh YES! There’s . . . “ and he’d immediately list two or three huge differences and then downshift to a bunch of reasons why that’s better™ and then you’d go home and not remember a single one very well.

These days I don’t really know. Is there a little red devil in the house?